The effect of inductively versus deductively organized text on American and Japanese readers

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-114

  Spyridakis, Jan H ^a   Fukuoka, Waka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrastive rhetoric; Deductive organizational patterns; Document design; Localization of text; Reader comprehension; Reader preference; Structural schemata; Text organization

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION THEORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CONTRACTIVE RHETORIC; DEDUCTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS; DOCUMENT DESIGN; EXPOSITORY TEXT; READER COMPREHENSION; STRUCTURAL SCHEMATA; TEXT ORGANIZATION;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 0036609810     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2002.1003692     Document Type: Article

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