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Subject:Re: Doc Design Research From:Henry Korman <korman -at- WP-CONSULTING -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:48:18 -0700
For Dan Lupo
dan_lupo -at- dell -dot- com
Here are some sources for sources:
Daniel B. Felker (ed.) Document Design: A Review of the Relevant Research.
American Institute for Research, Washington, D.C., 1980.
Doheny-Farina, Stephen ed. Effective Documentation: What We Have Learned
From Research. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988.
Spyridakis, Jan H. & Wenger, Michael J. Writing for Human Performance:
Relating Reading Research to Document Design. Technical Communication 39,
no. 2 (1992) pp. 202-215.
Alred, Gerald J., Reep, Diana C., Limaye, Mohan R. Business and technical
writing : an annotated bibliography of books, 1880-1980. Scarecrow Press,
Metuchen, N.J., 1981.
An Annotated bibliography on technical writing, editing, graphics, and
publishing, 1966-1980. Society for Technical Communication, Washington,
D.C., 1983.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Henry Korman
Wordplay Consulting Email: korman -at- wp-consulting -dot- com
Documentation/Design/Consulting Voice: (510) 841-5858
Berkeley, CA USA Fax: (510) 848-0159
