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Peer reviewedGiltrow, Janet – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1998
Focuses on the nominal expressions in the discourse on management. Finds that these nominals recursively delete not only agent roles but also those of experiencer, object, and goal, and at the same time conflate the interests of researchers and managers. Suggests that management nominals are a particularly intense expression of modernity itself.…
Descriptors: Administration, Higher Education, Nouns, Text Structure
Peer reviewedWenger, Michael J.; Spyridakis, Jan H. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1993
Studies empirically the effects on reader performance of reduced text structure in technical writing texts. Reveals that removal of cues to local coherence produced reliable decrements in reader performance. Discusses results with regard to questions of information design. (HB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reader Response, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
