Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Oct 1998

The Use of Highlighting to Indicate Artifacts of the User Interface

M. L. Harvey

Abstract

This article shows how an apparently minor innovation, special highlighting to indicate that a term represents an artifact of the user interface, has implications for sentence grammar. In short, the highlighting increases the semantic complexity of the sentence in which it appears, and unless the highlighting is used with the utmost care problems can arise in interpretation.

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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
1998-10-01
DOI
10.2190/alx3-punb-d03l-aw3j
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  1. Harvey Marshall (1996)
    STC Boston Broadside
  2. Harvey Marshall (1984)
    WPS-PLUS Getting Started
  3. Harvey Marshall (1985)
    Information for New Writers
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