Written documents in the workplace / / edited by D. Alamargot, P. Terrier, J.-M. Cellier.
Written Documents in the Workplace is divided into three parts, the first of which provides a linguistic definition of professional documents, describing their different types and genres. This definition necessarily takes into account both the formal characteristics of these types of document (e.g....
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| Superior document: | Studies in writing |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Boston : : Elsevier,, 2007. |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Writing
21. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Notes: | Title from PDF title page (viewed Nov. 30, 2007). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Denis Alamargot , Patrice Terrier and Jean-Marie Cellier
- Chapter 1: Linguistic Markers of Lexical and Textual Relations in Technical Documents / Anne Condamines and Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley
- Chapter 2: The Design, Understanding and Usage of Pictograms / Charles Tijus , Javier Barcenilla , Brigitte Cambon de Lavalette and Jean-Guy Meunier
- Chapter 3: Readability and Intelligibility of Procedural Texts: The Case of Enumeration in Legal Texts / Céline Beaudet and Pamela Grant
- Chapter 4: Considering Users and the Way They Use Procedural Texts: Some Prerequisites for the Design of Appropriate Documents / Franck Ganier and Javier Barcenilla
- Chapter 5: Highly Effective Writers and the Role of Reading: A Cognitive Approach to Composing in Professional Contexts / Thomas Quinlan and Denis Alamargot
- Chapter 6: Professional Editing: Emphasis on the Quality of a Text and its Communicative Effectiveness / Jocelyne Bisaillon
- Chapter 7: Procedural Texts Written by Children / Eduardo Martí and Merce Garcia-Mila
- Chapter 8 : Developing an Online Writing Tutor to Improve Technical-Writing Skills in Engineering and Science Students / John R. Hayes , Diana M. Bajzek , Judy Brooks , Brenda Reyes , Nicole Hallinen and Erwin R. Steinberg
- Chapter 9: The Implications of Blogs for Professional Writing: Speed, Reach, Engagement, and the Art of the Self in the Participatory Web / Doreen Starke-Meyerring
- Chapter 10: The Production of Work Instructions in an Industrial Workplace: The Impact of a Functional Writer’s Work Context on the Outcome of His Activity / Véronique Barret , Isabelle Clerc and Sylvie Montreuil
- Chapter 11: Situation Models and Their Role in Comprehension: The Need to Study Their Internal Structure / Isabelle Tapiero and José Otero
- Chapter 12: The Effects of Interaction with the Device and Text Structure on the Mental Representations Derived from the Procedure / Patrice Terrier , Virginia Diehl and Julie Lemarié
- Chapter 13: Comprehension Processes in Translation / Pedro Macizo and Maria Teresa Bajo
- Chapter 14: How Reading Strategies Affect the Comprehension of Texts in Hypertext Systems / R. Ignacio Madrid and José Cañas
- Chapter 15: Task-Guidance Systems and Procedure Context: Enabling Procedures to Enhance Worker Performance / Jennifer Ockerman
- Chapter 16: Animated Documentation: A Way of Comprehending Complex Procedural Tasks? / Richard K. Lowe
- Chapter 17: The Impact of Cognitively Based Design of Expository Multimedia / N. Hari Narayanan
- References / Denis Alamargot , Patrice Terrier and Jean-Marie Cellier
- Author Index / Denis Alamargot , Patrice Terrier and Jean-Marie Cellier
- Subject Index / Denis Alamargot , Patrice Terrier and Jean-Marie Cellier.