Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jul 1996

Storyboarding: A Concrete Way to Generate Effective Visuals

Greg Larkin Northern Arizona University

Abstract

Storyboarding, long associated with scriptwriting, advertising, and more recently with technical manuals, can be successfully applied to an even broader variety of technical documents. In this article, the application of storyboarding techniques to designing technical proposals suggests methods of incorporating more visuals into documents, as well as better meeting clients' needs.

Journal
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
1996-07-01
DOI
10.2190/2k9e-38jq-1t1n-dt5t
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multimodality multilingual writers

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