Japanese readers' comprehension of and preferences for inductively versus deductively organized text

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 355-367

  Fukuoka, Waka ^b   Spyridakis, Jan H ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHI-SQUARE TEST; DOCUMENT DESIGN; INDUCTIVE VERSUS DEDUCTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS; JAPANESE READERS; READER COMPREHENSION; READER PREFERENCE;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LINGUISTICS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WORD PROCESSING;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 0034476665     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.888811     Document Type: Article

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