Commentary the production and use of written text, generally. Specifically,for computer documentation, a process perspective is a bridge to helping student writers conceive the problem of media, or how to address clarity, meaningfulness, order, and accessibility across differing media, e.g. on the page and on the screen. Note on process: It's interesting to follow a ripple of ambivalence when reading. I reacted ambivalendy to Mayer's essay when I first read it; I liked its rough guesses for writing while disliking their rationale. Tracing my dislike to theoretical underpinnings of Mayer's project led me to recall Brandt's theory as an alternative. There, in a different conceptual universe, I rediscovered roots leading to Mayer's best stuff, his suggestions on text design. Odd how contrarily learning from text works. References Brandt, D. (1990).Literacy as involvement: the acts of writers, readers, and texts. Carbondaleand EdwardsviUe:Southern IllinoisPress. Kintsch,W.(1988).The role of knowledgein discourse comprehension: a construction-integration model.PsychologicalRevtew, 95, 163-182. Reading strategies, mental models and text design by Patricia Wright MRC Applied Psychology Unit 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 2EF England pat.wright@ mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk 1. Reading strategies matter Mayer's chapter, based on a paper presented in 1981, summarizes the findings from an elegant series of theoretically
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Reading strategies, mental models and text design
Wright, Patricia
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, Volume 19 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1995
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