Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals
Subtitle: a survey of style and grammatical metaphor
By: Inger Lassen
Series: Document design companion series -- v. 4; Document design companion series -- v. 4.
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781423761372; 9789027296825
Subjects: Technical writing; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Technical manuals; Readability (Literary style); Technical Writing
Description: Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of utility texts and how these texts are received and understood by a multifaceted audience. Accessibility is not a new research area and many explanations have been offered over the past years as to why non-experts often have difficulties in comprehending texts written by technological experts. This b.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-174) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Symbols; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Research disciplines and methods; Chapter 2. Field, Tenor and Mode dimensions; Chapter 3. Register analysis; Chapter 4. Categorizing text through genre analysis; Chapter 5. Research methods and survey; Chapter 6. Information structure; Chapter 7. The technical manual as social semiotic; Chapter 8. Discussion and conclusions; References; Appendix: Survey of writing style in technical manuals; Name index; Subject index.