Using Usability Testing to Teach Reader Response (A Teaching Tip).

Boiarsky, Carolyn

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ERIC Number: EJ447059

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Publication Date: 1992

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Using Usability Testing to Teach Reader Response (A Teaching Tip).

Boiarsky, Carolyn

Technical Communication, v39 n1 p100-02 Feb 1992

Describes an assignment in writing documentation that turns the classroom into a laboratory for usability testing, giving students a clear sense of the reader responding to their text. (SR)

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Higher Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing, Use Studies, Writing Assignments

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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