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Language, art, and documentation: exploring yte visual process for greater audience comprehension

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Technical Writer - Document - Audience: The Technical Writer, ever-concerned with providing their audience with documents that will communicate ideas in as clear and concise a manner as possible, has relied all too heavily on the written word to accomplish this objective. This, however, is not enough and further investigation of the communication process is required. The Technical Writer, in order to create new ways to facilitate audience comprehension, must explore the visual process for more progressive alternatives. The result: fusing Language with the visual richness of Art.

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            SIGDOC '86: Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation
            June 1986
            104 pages
            ISBN:0897912241
            DOI:10.1145/318723

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