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Baker, William H. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Presents a procedure to compose or evaluate structurally sound text, encompassing inclusiveness, exclusiveness, hierarchy, sequence, and language. Offers guidelines for making text structure visible to the reader with headings, format, signals, reminders, and effective paragraphing. (SR)
Descriptors: Layout (Publications), Reader Text Relationship, Technical Writing, Text Structure

Wenger, Michael J.; Payne, David G. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Finds that a graphical browser (a graphical representation of the structure of a hypertext document) had no effect on recall, comprehension, or recall of text structure but that it did increase the amount of text read by users and reduced the number of nodes repeated during reading. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hypermedia, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension