Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Document Design
Course Number:
L_AABACIW207
Course Description:
During this course, we will try to understand how certain choices in the design of a document can help us to inform, convince or instruct its receiver. We will pay attention to various theories on information processing and text comprehension, and we will use these theories to understand how the characteristics of a certain document help to reach its goal. By analyzing examples from informative, persuasive and instructive texts from different domains, students learn to recognize linguistic phenomena that play a role in document design and they will at the end of the course be able to analyze the problems of a text, to improve it/rewrite it and to draw conclusions about its functionality by conducting user research.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 485
Attachment Files:
Studyguide (19)_7.pdf
