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Wright, Patricia; And Others – Technical Writing Teacher, 1990
Focuses on diagrams giving overviews of complex technical information as facilitators for adult subjects using computers to learn about the business activities of a fictitious family. Finds that features of the author's control over the reader's encounter with the diagram influences whether readers will interrupt their reading to study the…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Hypermedia, Reader Text Relationship