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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"document design"”.
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A genre analysis of the processes of professional document design
… and specifically to the processes of document design in technical writing and public relations. The data presents the problem of dealing with two very different kinds of interaction; one largely interactive and the other largely monologic. A principal feature of the analysis to be …
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Teaching Visual Literacy and Document Design in First-Year Composition
… how to teach students about visual literacy and document design so that they can effectively interpret these visually enhanced texts and create documents that use visuals and words together; this will also prepare students for college writing and workplace writing. Naturally, there exists some …
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The accessibility of English academic texts that were rewritten in plain language and according to document design principles: A Stellenbosch University case study
… and to adapt academic texts according to document design principles. Moreover, many students encounter problems during their studies because of their inability to acquire “a sophisticated use of English” often found in academic English. Students are often able to communicate sufficiently …
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Effective Visual Design for Proposal Writing
The field of document design has gained considerable attention over the past couple of decades. New technology has drastically increased the design possibilities for writers, and researchers are gaining greater insight into the way that readers interact with the visual elements of their texts. This …
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Designing For A Japanese High-context Culture: Culture's Influence On The Technical Writer's Visual Rhetoric
… the challenges technical writers face when designing documents for high-context cultures, such as the Japanese. When developing documents intended to cross cultural gulfs, technical writers must take into consideration cultural expectations, preferences, and practices in document design and …
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Assessment and change : using verbal analysis to update criteria in the technical communication service course
… is shifting toward electronic writing and document design. The conclusion applies the results to the ongoing curriculum and criteria assessment in English 352.
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A study of hypertext document structure and individual differences: Effects on learning performance
… an attempt to find out the effects of hypertext document design as well as individual differences on users' attitude and information searching performance. The interaction effects between structure of hypertext documents and individual difference variables were examined. The three types of …
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Educational Materials in a Private School Setting: An Industrial Ethnography and Document Analysis of One School’s Presently-Used Educational Documents
… industrial ethnographic framework to perform a document analysis on educational classroom documents presently used at a single small, private boarding school. This school, where students are given an individualized curriculum and experience immersed in technology, frequently uses Google Apps for …
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Formal methods for reuse of design patterns and micro-architectures
… for a micro-architecture chosen from a design pattern repository. In this context, we have also discussed the need to formally document design patterns and provided a formal framework within which design patterns can be formalized. Finally, we present the conceptual schema for a design …
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How to Humanize a Zoning Ordinance: Practicing the Art of the Possible While Writing Laws for Bureaucrats and Citizens
… zoning ordinance, which is a legal and technical document dealing with certain aspects of city planning. The document design field today is fertile in terms of the many techniques it has developed for producing highly readable documents, yet most city planners are totally unaware of such …
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Tools and Metrics for Evaluating Modular Product Concepts Based on Strategic Objectives
The design of modular products has recently become the focus of significant research in the area of design theory and methodology. This focus is the result of increased awareness of the potential power of modularity to achieve certain product objectives. However, there continues to be a gap between …
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Text Integration for the Multilingual Printed Page
… language material using non-Latin scripts on the design of ‘public informational’ genre documents in the UK. It examined the design strategies stemming from differing styles of visual language, focussing on the use of simultaneity and graphic equivalency (the visual matching and treatment of …
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Development of a field tested career decision workbook for Bible college freshmen
… methods used in the study included (1) initial document design, incorporating the use of instructional design principles; (2) review of readability experts; (3) preliminary field testing with students; and, (4) main field testing with students. The field tests were conducted as two-day …
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A Survey of White Paper Types
… white paper is a widely used technical marketing document genre that has been curiously neglected in technical writing instruction. Used in government for over four centuries to foster discussion and promulgate official political positions, the white paper genre has expanded in recent decades to …
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Semantic deontic modeling and text classification for supporting automated environmental compliance checking in construction
… to checking the conformance of a process, plan, document, design, or action to applicable norms (regulatory norms, contractual norms, and advisory practices). Manual compliance checking has been time-intensive, resource-consuming, and error-prone. Automated compliance checking (ACC) is thus a …