Using structural theory to make a word-processing manual more understandable

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-35

  Hagmann, Stefan ^b   Mayer, Richard E ^a   Nenniger, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

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EID: 0031990152     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(96)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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