Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals : a survey of style and grammatical metaphor /
Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2003.
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Colección: | Document design companion series ;
v. 4. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of utility texts and how these texts are received and understood by a multifaceted audience. Accessibility is not a new research area and many explanations have been offered over the past years as to why non-experts often have difficulties in comprehending texts written by technological experts. This b. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 183 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index. |
ISBN: | 1423761375 9781423761372 9027296820 9789027296825 |
ISSN: | 1568-1963 ; |