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