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  • Structured Document processors: Implications for technical writing
    Technical Communication Quarterly, 1992
    Co-Authors: Rose Norman, Daryl Grider
    Abstract:

    Structured Document Processors (SDPs) guide and control composing processes for specialized writing, such as procedures and regulations. SDPs integrate word processors and various writing aids in a controlled writing environment that prompts writers for particular kinds of information, automatically formats Document Design features, and provides context‐sensitive help on how to write within the required Document structures. This article describes a range of SDPs now used in industry, and explores their implications for the practice and teaching of technical writing.

  • The human factor in using structured Document processors
    IPCC 91 Proceedings The Engineered Communication, 1991
    Co-Authors: Daryl Grider
    Abstract:

    Structured-Document processors (SDPs) engineer Documents by guiding and controlling the composing processes for specialized writing such as procedures. The author provides a functional definition of SDPs and explores the human factors implications of using SDPs. SDPs automatically format Document Design features and provide context-sensitive help on how to write within the required Document structures. SDPs can also be used to schedule and track Document development and to track source material incorporated in the Documents. SDPs require customized programming; once customized, these systems make many writing choices hard to change. It is noted that those Designing SDPs need sophisticated understanding of how Document production teams will use SDPs. Designers also need an equally sophisticated understanding of the needs of Documents end users.

Rhonda Fisher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Rose Norman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Structured Document processors: Implications for technical writing
    Technical Communication Quarterly, 1992
    Co-Authors: Rose Norman, Daryl Grider
    Abstract:

    Structured Document Processors (SDPs) guide and control composing processes for specialized writing, such as procedures and regulations. SDPs integrate word processors and various writing aids in a controlled writing environment that prompts writers for particular kinds of information, automatically formats Document Design features, and provides context‐sensitive help on how to write within the required Document structures. This article describes a range of SDPs now used in industry, and explores their implications for the practice and teaching of technical writing.

Leo Lentz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Improving the usability of patient information leaflets
    Patient education and counseling, 2009
    Co-Authors: Henk Pander Maat, Leo Lentz
    Abstract:

    This study assesses the usability of three patient information leaflets and attempts to improve them while complying with the current EU regulations. Three original leaflets were tested among 154 potential users. Every participant answered 15 scenario questions for one of the leaflets. The leaflets were subsequently reDesigned based on the test results and evidence-based Document Design principles. The revised texts were tested among 164 participants. All three original leaflets suffered from usability problems, especially problems related to finding relevant information. On average, only 75% of the topics could be located. Comprehension of the information, once found, was around 90%. The revisions led to better performance. Information was found faster and more successful. Comprehension scores were higher as well. A follow-up study shows that these findings can be generalized over paper formats. Although the current EU regulations for patient information leaflets do not guarantee leaflet usability, the leaflets can be improved somewhat within the regulations. However, further research should evaluate the text structure currently imposed on leaflets. Information leaflets must be written, or rewritten, according to Document Design principles. Furthermore, they must be user tested in a rigorous way. Copyright 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  • Functional Analysis for Document Design
    2004
    Co-Authors: Leo Lentz, Henk Pander Maat
    Abstract:

    SUMMARY Shows how a main Document purpose may bedecomposed into a hierarchical networkcontaining sub-goals Analyzes the multiple constraints that may bederived from different components of thefunctional context Functional Analysisfor Document Design LEO LENTZ AND HENK PANDER MAAT INTRODUCTION Design is the development of new artifacts under con-straints. Constraints range from obvious ones such asrequired functionality, cost, and safety to more subtleones such as originality and (conversely) compatibilitywith existing practices. (Ormerod 2000, p. 182) F unctional analysis is a conceptual tool to be usedin the first stage of the Document Design process.Given Ormerod’s definition of Design, we mayexpect that the Design process begins with artic-ulating and evaluating different kinds of constraints, andweighing them against each other; and this is the kind ofwork functional analysis is meant to help with. However,we do not sharply distinguish among stages in the Designprocess. In fact, the entire Design process can be seen as aprogressive specification of constraints, in which globalrequirements are replaced by more and more detailedrepresentations of what the Document must look like(Chevalier and Ivory 2003). Still, the start of this process isof extra importance. It is here that a careful look at thefunctional context of the Document will be most profitable.A central component of this context is, of course, thecommunicative purpose of the Document. Purposes do notonly guide the Design team through the collaborative plan-ning and drafting of a Document, but may also serve as astandard for measuring success when it comes to reader-testing drafts of the Document.Although the importance of purposes in communica-tion Design has already been emphasized by Anderson(1987), it is often unclear how communicative purposesshould be described. For instance, in a study largely ded-icated to defining communicative purposes, Askehave(1999) has described one of the main goals of companybrochures as presenting the company as a qualified part-ner. In her study, Askehave rightly points out that we needto know more about the context to be able to analyze thepurposes of a Document. But what should we look forwhenstudyingthiscontext?Andispresentingthecompanyas a qualified partner a helpful description of such a pur-pose?We do not believe it is. According to Anderson (1987),purpose descriptions should concentrate on the final resultthat is aimed for when readers use the Document. Thismeansthatthepurposeshouldnotbedescribedintermsofauthor intentions, such as

  • Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions, Second Edition - Babel in Document Design: the evaluation of multilingual texts
    IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2000
    Co-Authors: Leo Lentz, J. Hulst
    Abstract:

    The aim of the study is to analyze the process of Document Design in a multilingual setting. In order to evaluate translation quality, a theoretical perspective is formulated as a basis for criteria for a good translation. In this perspective, the target text is considered an autonomous Document. Two sets of criteria are distinguished: correctness errors and functional errors. The tools that were used to assess translation quality were expert analysis and reader focused evaluation. For both tools, a multilingual evaluation team was formed with the highest possible expertise in the target languages, in linguistics, and in usability. In this case study, the process of evaluation and the results are described.

Suk I Yoo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • dom tree browsing of a very large xml Document Design and implementation
    Journal of Systems and Software, 2009
    Co-Authors: Seung Min Kim, Suk I Yoo
    Abstract:

    Browsing the DOM tree of an XML Document is an act of following the links among the nodes of the DOM tree to find some desired nodes without any knowledge for search. When the structure of the XML Document is not known to a user, browsing is the basic operation performed for referring the contents of the XML Document. If the size of the XML Document is very large, however, using a general-purpose XML parser for browsing the DOM tree of the XML Document to access arbitrary node may suffer from the lack of memory space for constructing the large DOM tree. To alleviate this problem, we suggest a method to browse the DOM tree of a very large XML Document by splitting the XML Document into n small XML Documents and generating sequentially the DOM tree of each of those small n XML Documents. For later reference, the information of some nodes accessed from the DOM tree already generated has been also kept using the concept of their virtual nodes. With our suggested approach, the memory space necessary for browsing the DOM tree of a very large XML Document is reduced such that it can be managed by a personal computer.