The Skills of Document Use : From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning

Jean-Francois Rouet

ISBN 10: 0805846026 / ISBN 13: 9780805846027

Published by Taylor & Francis Inc Mär 2006, 2006

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Neuware - Examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint. This book offers a discussion of the cognitive skills involved in reading, comprehending, and making use of complex documents. The first part covers issues of text comprehension, document synthesis, and information search, and second part examines the impact of information technologies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Skills of Document Use : From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Mär 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805846026
• ISBN 13: 9780805846027
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 0D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 630 grams

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Synopsis

The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the cognitive skills involved in reading, comprehending, and making use of complex documents. Understanding such skills is important at times when printed and online information systems are being used more and more extensively for work, education, and personal development. It is also very important to understand how the Internet transforms the way we search, read, and comprehend documents.

The core purpose of the book is to inform research scientists, students, and instructional designers about recent advances in the psychology of document comprehension. Whereas reading research has mostly focused on basic cognitive processes involved in simple comprehension tasks, this book extends the psychology of reading to more complex, real-life comprehension activities. The book draws a link between research areas usually separated: language psychology, on the one hand, and Web design, on the other hand.

The work also attempts to bridge a gap between research in cognitive psychology and practical issues in the design and use of information systems. It invites the reader to a guided journey from theoretical models of text comprehension to concrete issues in the design and use of instructional technology.

The book will be of interest to students specializing in psychology, language, communication, and publishing. It will also be useful to all those who are involved in the training of literacy skills, or in the design of information systems accessible to a wide audience.

About the Author

Jean-Francois Rouet