Readers, Users, and Everyone Else
description
Transcript of Readers, Users, and Everyone Else
![Page 1: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Readers, Users, and Everyone Else
From Rude, Carolyn. Technical Editing, 4th ed.
![Page 2: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The context includes the reason for which a text is developed.
![Page 3: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Differences between text and context
Text• Content• Organization• Visual design• Illustrations• Style• Headings• Index• Appendices• Page numbers• Tables• Grammar• Mechanics• Punctuation• Spelling
• Citations• Paper type• Paper size• Bindng• Color• Typography• Menus• Links• Layout• Resolution• Coding• Etc.
Context• Origins and impact• Readers and use• Culture and expectations• Accessibility• Constraints on development
![Page 4: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Readers are busy, and have specific needs.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/3392711030_fa9857449b.jpg http://www.gadgets.am/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/amazon-kindle-dx-ebook-reader.jpg
![Page 5: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
It’s all about audience.
![Page 6: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Pay attention to cultural variables, such as:
• High Context vs. Low Context
• Monochronic vs. Polychronic
• Future vs. Present vs. Past Orientation
• Power Distance
• Individualism vs. Collectivism
![Page 7: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Be aware of how readers read, and their needs
• Accessibility• Created meaning• Selective reading
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fail-owned-wheelchair-tablet-accessibility-fail.jpg
![Page 8: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Readers bring their own stories to every document.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/25/glowingbunny.jpg
![Page 9: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
![Page 10: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Edit work to account for content, symbols, and noise.
• Anticipate questions• Link new information
with familiar information
• Organize information logically
![Page 11: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Give your audience visual and structural signals.
IntroductionWithin the sphere of rhetoric and science there are, as Wander and Jaehne (2000) have pointed out, “many specialized areas and specialized languages” (215). We talk and write about such subsets as environmental rhetoric and medical rhetoric, and accept that within the juxtaposition of the concepts “rhetoric” and “science” lie innumerable opportunities for scholarship. An examination of the literature on rhetoric and science, however, shows three distinct categories of scholarship: the rhetoric of science; rhetorical science; and the rhetorical presentation of science.
![Page 12: Readers, Users, and Everyone Else](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062811/568161d4550346895dd1d369/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Avoid unnecessary noise.
OC Wildlife and Beach tour website