The vocabulary of library home pages: An influence on diverse and remote end-users

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 151-156

  Spivey, Mark A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY   (United States)

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11. 11. An example of linguistic focus on public documents is John O'Hayre's analysis in 1975 for the Bureau of Land Management on how to reduce gobbledygook (ERIC document #ED144073).
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14. 13. For examples of the concern with jargon and the mass media, see William Lutz, The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore (New York: HarperCollins, 1996); Donna Woolfolk Cross, Word Abuse: How the Words We Use Use Us (New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1979); Samuel Levin, Shades of Meaning: Reflections on the Use, Misuse, and Abuse of English (Boulder: Westview Pr., 1998); and Newman, 178.
15. 13. For examples of the concern with jargon and the mass media, see William Lutz, The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore (New York: HarperCollins, 1996); Donna Woolfolk Cross, Word Abuse: How the Words We Use Use Us (New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1979); Samuel Levin, Shades of Meaning: Reflections on the Use, Misuse, and Abuse of English (Boulder: Westview Pr., 1998); and Newman, 178.
16. 13. For examples of the concern with jargon and the mass media, see William Lutz, The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore (New York: HarperCollins, 1996); Donna Woolfolk Cross, Word Abuse: How the Words We Use Use Us (New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1979); Samuel Levin, Shades of Meaning: Reflections on the Use, Misuse, and Abuse of English (Boulder: Westview Pr., 1998); and Newman, 178.
17. 14. Naismith and Stein, "Library Jargon," 545, 551-52.
18. 15. Joan Worley, "The CD-Word: Reflections on User Behaviors and User Service," Electronic Library 14 (Oct. 1996): 411-13.
19. 16. Virginia Ortiz-Repiso and Purifacación Moscoso, "Web-Based OPACs: Between Tradition and Innovation," Information Technology and Libraries 18 (June 1999): 72-75.
20. 17. Peter B. Mosenthal and Irwin S. Kirsch, "A New Measure for Assessing Document Complexity: The PMOSE/KIRSCH Document Readability Formula," Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 41 (May 1998): 638-57.
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22. 19. Kelvin Don Nilsen and Allien Pace Nilsen, "Library Metaphors and Other Linguistic Innovations in Computer Language," English Journal 84 (Oct. 1995): 69-70.
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