SD - Word Processing

• Trends
  • Paper and magnetic tape, cards to diskettes and online discs
  • Batch formatters to interactive
• Tools
  • Page, article: Word, Word Perfect, ...
  • Book: FrameMaker, InterLeaf, ...
• Authoring
  • Content structure: hierarchical outline
  • Illustrations: figures, diagrams
  • Data presentation: tables, graphs
  • References: citations (with annotations)
  • Rhetorical structure:
    • telling a story
    • following a timeline
    • explaining through details
    • clarifying with examples
    • tracing causal chain
    • expanding system into subsystems and components
    • describing functionality
    • recounting argumentation
  • Reader aids:
    • table of contents
    • table of figures
    • index
    • glossary
  • Devices: highlight/emphasize, order, position in hierarchy
  • Layout: on page, relative placement, size, visibility, readability, complementarity