Teaching Text Design

Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 1996

Robert Kramer ; Stephen A. Bernhardt

Abstract

A growing body of literature defines a rhetoric of visible text based on page layout, typography, and the various design features afforded by page composition tools buitt into word processors and page design programs. Little has been written, however, about what a wriier needs to know about design and in what order. This article describes and demonstrates a scope and sequence of learning that encourages writers to develop their skills as text designers. It introduces relevant liierature that is helpful for such learning and it does so in an evolving format that displays visually what the essay discusses verbally.

Journal: Technical Communication Quarterly
Published: 1996-01-01
DOI: 10.1207/s15427625tcq0501_3
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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