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Download full textHumes, Ann – 1984
Drawing from the conclusions of research studies by linguists and psychologists, this paper describes four classes of principles for constructing readable prose for both print materials and computer screens: (1) global principles dealing with a schema-theory approach to discourse type, with topical focus, and with parallelism; (2) sentence-level…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Design Requirements, Guidelines, Linguistics
