Mental Representations Formed From Educational Website Formats
Description:
The increasing popularity of web-based distance education places high demand on distance educators to format web pages to facilitate learning. However, limited guidelines exist regarding appropriate writing styles for web-based distance education. This study investigated the effect of four different writing styles on reader’s mental representation of hypertext. Participants studied hypertext written in one of four web-writing styles (e.g., concise, scannable, objective, and combined) and were t…
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Date:
October 1, 2006
Creator:
Cady, Elizabeth T.; Raddatz, Kimberly R.; Tran, Tuan Q.; Garza, Bernardo de la & Elgin, Peter D.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department