Instructional Text: The Transition from Page to Screen.

Kerr, Stephen T.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Instructional Text: The Transition from Page to Screen.

Kerr, Stephen T.

Visible Language, v20 n4 p368-92 Fall 1986

Discusses the types of problems that arise when text is presented in electronic form: (1) surface design, which involves typography, layout, graphics and illustrations, and the quality of language; and (2) interface design, which is manifested on the levels of immediate surface of the text, internal structure, and external structure. (SKC)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Publishing, Higher Education, Layout (Publications), Reader Text Relationship, Screens (Displays), Textbooks, Writing Research, Written Language

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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