Strategies for Understanding Forms and Other Public Documents. Document Design Project, Technical Report No. 13 [electronic resource] / V. Melissa Holland and Janice C. Redish.

Viewed as discourse, official forms exhibit identifiable text characteristics and elicit strategies for comprehension that take into account these characteristics, as well as context and the user's prior knowledge about the world. However, forms also have unique characteristics that require pro...

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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:	Redish, Janice C.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981.
Subjects:	Discourse Analysis. Government Publications. Layout (Publications) Prior Learning. Reading Comprehension. Reading Processes.