Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators

by Charles Kostelnick, David D. Roberts, Sam Dragga

More often workplace writing and document design takes a backseat in a company's mission/product. This book offers strategies and tools for document design of ALL types. Readers will extend to visual design the approach they assimilate in their writing and editing. It focuses on the kinds of situations and practical documents that employees encounter daily, with a special focus on audience, purpose, and context of the message. Topics perception and design; visual analysis; extra-textual design; pictures, and more. Writers and editors who design documents. Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Writing , edited by Sam Dragga, Texas Tech University.

Genres: Nonfiction, Writing

455 pages, Paperback

First published December 26, 1997

Reviews

[Randy Hulshizer]

This is one time when you SHOULD judge a book by its cover. It was a terrible example of "Designing Visual Language."