The Why, Where and How of Minimalism R. John Brockmann Associate Professor Concentration in Business and Technical Writing University of Delaware Newark, DE What is Minimalism? Minimalism is the self-described label that a group of current researchers and writers have given to computer documentation s newest style of writing. It s chief theorist is John Carroll of the IBM Watson Research Laboratories who has published articles about his minimalist experiments over the last six years and has recently packaged them all in a new book by MIT Press, The Nurnberg Funnel, published earlier this summer. The basic message of the minimalists is: Get out of the way of the learner as much as possible : The key idea in the Minimalist approach is to present the smallest possible obstacle to learners efforts, to accommodate, even to exploit the learning strategies that cause problems for learners using systematic instructional materials. The goal is to let the learner get more out of the training experience by providing less overt training structure (Carroll, 1990, Chap. 4). And this leads them to do such things as cut 75% of the pages introductions, and summaries. But where does minimalism come from? How
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The why, where and how of minimalism
Brockmann, R. John
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 14 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1990
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