A Comparison of Prose and Algorithms for Presenting Complex Instructions. Document Design Project, Technical Report No. 17 [electronic resource] / V. Melissa Holland and Andrew Rose.

Complex conditional instructions ("if X, then do Y") are prevalent in public documents, where they typically appear in prose form. Results of two previous studies have shown that conditional instructions become very difficult to process as the structure becomes more complex. A study was de...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Holland, V. Melissa
Corporate Authors:	American Institutes for Research, Siegel and Gale, Carnegie-Mellon University
Other Authors:	Rose, Andrew
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981.
Subjects:	Algorithms. College Students. Comparative Analysis. Government Publications. Layout (Publications) Problem Solving. Prose. Reading Difficulties. Reading Research. Sentence Structure.