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Procedural and declarative information in software manuals

Author : Nicole Ummelen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004488731
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Procedural and declarative information in software manuals written by Nicole Ummelen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who use software manuals want to get something done. Procedural information directly supports this goal, but the use of declarative information in manuals has often been under discussion. Current research gives rise to the expectation that manual users tend to skip declarative information most of the time. Also, no effects of declarative information in software manuals have yet been found. In this study, information use and information effects in software manuals are investigated in three experiments, thereby taking different user types, different task types and different information arrangements into account. A new technique was applied: the click&read method. This technique enables the software user to use the manual and carry out software tasks at the same time while information selection and times are recorded automatically in logfiles. For the first time, quantitative data are presented about the amounts of procedural and declarative information that were selected and the times that were spent using these information types. Although procedural information is selected more often and used longer, declarative information appears to be a substantial part of the information selection. Moreover, the results show that using declarative information positively affects performance on future tasks, performance on reasoning tasks and factual knowledge.

Use and Effect of Declarative Information in User Instructions

Author : Joyce Karreman
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042018419
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Use and Effect of Declarative Information in User Instructions written by Joyce Karreman and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from the procedural information that describes how a device should be operated, instructions for use include different types of declarative information, such as information about the internal working of the device (system information) and information about the circumstances in which the different functions can be used (utilization information). In this study, the use and the effects of system and utilization information are investigated in a number of experiments. The results demonstrate that users spend a considerable amount of time on reading each information type. However, contrary to common belief, system information has only limited effects; utilization information does not affect task performance at all. Moreover, users of instructions without declarative information are more confident in their ability to learn to work with the device and consider the learning process less difficult than users of instructions with declarative information. These results suggest that users of instructions without system and utilization information are capable to use other information sources such as the procedural information and the interface of the device to derive the required declarative knowledge.

From Ælfric to the New York Times

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004653635
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book From Ælfric to the New York Times written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty papers of this volume - published to honour Gunnel Tottie - are of interest to everyone concerned with the study of the English language. The collection is a convincing argument for an approach to language studies based on the analysis of computerized corpora. Though this is not an introduction to the field but a series of highly specialized studies, readers get a good overview of the work being done at present in English computer corpus studies. English corpus linguistics, though basically concerned with the study of varieties of English, goes far beyond the simple ordering and counting of large numbers of examples but is deeply concerned with linguistic theory - based on real language data. The volume includes sections on corpora of written and spoken present-day English, historical corpora, contrastive corpora, and on the application of corpus studies to teaching purposes.

Passive and Perspective

Author : Louise H. Cornelis
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001572
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Passive and Perspective written by Louise H. Cornelis and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passive construction in Dutch represents a long-standing problem both in linguistics and in written communications. This book proposes a new analysis of the passive in Dutch, integrating insights from theoretical (especially cognitive) linguistics and rhetoric/composition. The point of departure is the observation that the Dutch passive has a demonstrable perspective effect in texts: the passive discourages identification with the agent, and this in fact is the meaning of the Dutch passive construction. This meaning forms the basis for a solution to a number of text problems, including the problem of how to best use the passive in computer manuals. We can also understand the passive's role in specific texts. For example, it becomes clear why policy paper writers use so many passives. Finally, in one of the case studies it is shown why passives were used differently in the NRC Handelsblad, a Rotterdam daily newspaper, and in the Parool, from Amsterdam, when they both reported that Ajax, Amsterdam's football team, became the national soccer champion.

Children's composing

Author : José van der Hoeven
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900448468X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Children's composing written by José van der Hoeven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume a relatively new approach to writing process research is attempted; time is included as a very important factor in describing the writing process. The link between the writing process of 12-year old students, the quality of the compositions, and writing skills is investigated in six studies, discussing the importance of genre knowledge, linguistic skills, and cognitive skills in writing. Including linguistic and cognitive skills gives new perspectives on the relationship between the writing process and the resulting composition. The concepts used in these studies are drawn from the fields of both linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Quality of technical documentation

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484515
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Quality of technical documentation written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User manuals, reference guides, project documentation, equipment specifications and other technical documents are increasingly subjected to high quality standards. However, it is not clear whether research efforts are keeping pace with this increasing importance of documentation quality. This volume includes studies from researchers as well as practitioners, exemplifying three approaches towards document quality: • Product-orientation, with an eye for usability in various manifestations such as tutorials, concept definitions, tools for users of documentation to find information, methods of eliciting user feedback, and cultural differences; • Process-orientation, in which the quality of technical documentation is regarded as an outgrowth of a process involving sub-steps such as storyboarding, pre-testing and use of automation tools in writing and producing documents; • Professional orientation, in which attention is focused on those who create technical documentation. The volume will be of interest to a broad audience of writers, managers and trainers with technical and non-technical backgrounds, such as: quality managers; communication managers; technical communicators; trainers in computer usage; teachers, researchers and students of (technical) communication.

Reader feedback in text design

Author : Menno de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004488723
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Reader feedback in text design written by Menno de Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brochures play a significant role in governmental public information provision. Every year many brochures are distributed to inform, instruct or persuade people. These brochures may benefit from a systematic design process, including applied research such as pretesting. Among communication professionals, the importance of pretesting is practically undisputed. Readers from the target audience are assumed to provide valuable insights into whether a document really works. Organizations therefore increasingly try to include a pretest in the design process of important documents. Various pretest methods have been developed and are being used in practice. However, little is known yet about the merits and restrictions of the available approaches. This book provides a framework for scholarly research into pretesting, and presents a series of studies into the validity of one particular pretest instrument: a combination of the plus-minus method and a semi-structured questionnaire. This is one of the prevailing pretest approaches in the Dutch public information sector. The validity of the pretest instrument is assessed in two complementary ways. First, the question is addressed as to whether a revision on the basis of pretest results actually leads to an improvement in the functional quality of brochures. Second, a study is presented in which text and subject-matter experts judge the importance of pretest results. The pretest instrument appears to yield a large amount and a great variety of reader feedback, which in a subsequent revision may contribute to significant improvements in the effectiveness of brochures.

Communication on and via Technology

Author : Annely Rothkegel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110260271
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Communication on and via Technology written by Annely Rothkegel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interdependency of technology and communication presents theoreticians as well as practitioners with a wide range of problems. Among the topics discussed in this interdisciplinary volume are: technological knowledge in text and context in combination with cognitive and social conditions, knowledge transfer beyond languages and cultures, the influence of the world wide web on social communities.

Tracing the Trail of Time

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042002098
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Trail of Time written by Raymond Hickey and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fundamentals of Human Factors Design for Volunteered Geographic Information

Author : Christopher J. Parker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319035037
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Fundamentals of Human Factors Design for Volunteered Geographic Information written by Christopher J. Parker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the roles in which volunteered and professional information play within neogeography from a human factors perspective. The unique advantages of each information type are considered alongside how they may be utilised to create products and services delivering highly functional, efficient and satisfying experiences to their users. The overall aim of this book is to address the issue of how Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) can be combined with Professional Geographic Information (PGI) to satisfy the information search requirements of consumer-users via highly usable mashups. Firstly, this required the development of an understanding of the way different users perceive VGI and PGI in terms of its benefits to their activities and information needs. Secondly, the benefits that VGI may bring to the user experience of a mashup (which cannot be attained through the use of PGI) needed to be understood. In order to achieve this, a user centred design perspective was implemented throughout the research.

Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel

Author : John Millar Carroll
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262032490
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel written by John Millar Carroll and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimalism is an action- and task-oriented approach to instruction and documentation that emphasizes the importance of realistic activities and experiences for effective learning and information seeking. Since 1990, when the approach was defined in John Carroll's The Nurnberg Funnel, much work has been done to apply, refine, and broaden the minimalist approach to technical communication. This volume presents fourteen major contributions to the current theory and practice of minimalism.Contributors evaluate the development of minimalism up to now, analyze the acceptance of minimalism by the mainstream technical communications community, report on specific innovations and investigations, and discuss future challenges and directions. The book also includes an appendix containing a bibliography of published research and development work on minimalism since 1990. Contributors Tricia Anson, R. John Brockmann, John M. Carroll, Steve Draper, David K. Farkas, JoAnn T. Hackos, Robert R. Johnson, Greg Kearsley, Barbara Mirel, Janice (Ginny) Redish, Stephanie Rosenbaum, Karl L. Smart, Hans van der Meij. Published in association with the Society for Technical Communication.

Syntactic Variation and Genre

Author : Heidrun Dorgeloh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110226480
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Variation and Genre written by Heidrun Dorgeloh and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the interplay of syntactic variation and genre. How do genres emerge and what is the role of syntax in constituting them? Why do certain constructions appear in certain types of text? The book takes the concept of genre as a reference-point for the description and analysis of morpho-syntactic variation and change. It includes both overviews of theoretical approaches to the concept of genre and text type in linguistics and studies of specific syntactic phenomena in English, German, and selected Romance languages. Contributions to the volume make use of insights from attempts for text classification and rhetorical views on genre and reach from quantitative, corpus-based methodology to qualitative, text-based analyses. The types of texts investigated cover spoken, highly interactive, and written forms of communication, including selected genres of computer-mediated communication. Corpus data come from both synchronic and diachronic linguistic corpora, such as LOB, Brown, FLOB, Frown, ARCHER, and ICE-Jamaica. This spectrum both in approaches and data is meant to provide a theoretical foundation as well as a realistic view of the inherent complexity of form-function relationships in syntax. At the same time, genre is treated as a category relevant beyond discourse studies, consisting of forms and conventions at all levels of linguistic analysis, including syntax. The book is therefore of interest to linguists and graduate students in the area of syntax, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, as well as to sociolinguists and corpus linguists working on register variation.

IPCC/SIGDOC 2000

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ISBN 13 : 9780780364325
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (643 download)

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Applying Cognitive Science to Education

Author : Frederick Reif
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262182637
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Applying Cognitive Science to Education written by Frederick Reif and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to some of the cognitive issues important for thinking andlearning in scientific or other complex domains (such as mathematics, physics, chemistry,engineering, or expository writing), with practical educational applications and implementationmethods.

Conference Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conference Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors - 3 Volume Set

Author : Informa Healthcare
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482298538
Total Pages : 1980 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors - 3 Volume Set written by Informa Healthcare and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-12-14 with total page 1980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encyclopedia in the field, the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors provides a comprehensive and authoritative compendium of current knowledge on ergonomics and human factors. It gives specific information on concepts and tools unique to ergonomics. About 500 entries, published in three volumes and on CD-ROM, are pre

International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, Second Edition - 3 Volume Set

Author : Waldemar Karwowski
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415304306
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, Second Edition - 3 Volume Set written by Waldemar Karwowski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previous edition of the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors made history as the first unified source of reliable information drawn from many realms of science and technology and created specifically with ergonomics professionals in mind. It was also a winner of the Best Reference Award 2002 from the Engineering Libraries Division, American Society of Engineering Education, USA, and the Outstanding Academic Title 2002 from Choice Magazine. Not content to rest on his laurels, human factors and ergonomics expert Professor Waldemar Karwowski has overhauled his standard-setting resource, incorporating coverage of tried and true methods, fundamental principles, and major paradigm shifts in philosophy, thought, and design. Demonstrating the truly interdisciplinary nature of this field, these changes make the second edition even more comprehensive, more informative, more, in a word, encyclopedic. Keeping the format popularized by the first edition, the new edition has been completely revised and updated. Divided into 13 sections and organized alphabetically within each section, the entries provide a clear and simple outline of the topics as well as precise and practical information. The book reviews applications, tools, and innovative concepts related to ergonomic research. Technical terms are defined (where possible) within entries as well as in a glossary. Students and professionals will find this format invaluable, whether they have ergonomics, engineering, computing, or psychology backgrounds. Experts and researchers will also find it an excellent source of information on areas beyond the range of their direct interests.