Visual Communication Research (1)
Field of Research/Key Research Questions It is essential that technical communicators be literate designers of visual information, since the more...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (4)
Applicability to Professional Practice The findings of the 2006 survey were fully correspondent with the author’s expectations, and offer little...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (3)
MRT and the Findings of the 2006 Survey According to Daft and Lengel (1984), media richness is a function of...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (2)
The Survey Key Findings All respondents reported using all channels proposed by McGee; respondents overwhelmingly favoured face-to-face meetings at project...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (1)
This series of articles examines the media preferences of technical communicators within the conceptual framework provided by the article Communicating...
Paper Versus “On-Line” (Part 2. Benefits of On-line Documentation Production)
The findings of O’Hara and Sellen have little applicability to my work situation, which features only one process that can...
Paper Versus “On-Line” (Part 1. Analytical Summary)
This series of articles discusses a 1997 technical report on reading paper versus “on-line” documents. (For consistency with the report...
Information Design in Healthcare: Critique of a Journal Article (Part 3. Critical Appreciation)
Conceptual The authors’ mantra is ‘principles of Information Design’, yet ‘Information Design’ is neither defined nor a single example of...
Information Design in Healthcare: Critique of a Journal Article (Part 2. Critical Analysis)
In this follow-on article, the seven main claims of the authors receive a critical evaluation.