• DocumentCode
    1515128
  • Title

    Artistic technical training

  • Author

    Frye, Robert H.

  • Author_Institution
    Learning Shop, an instructional development company, 2104 Dewes St., Glenview, IL 60025
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1981
  • fDate
    6/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    86
  • Lastpage
    89
  • Abstract
    Creative technical art can attract attention and communicate technical messages by eliminating detail and focusing on specific points. Cartoons can carry a message by exaggeration or by transferring touchy personal characteristics away from the trainee. (Humor is used only to make a point memorable, not for entertainment, which is distracting.) Interpretive sketches and simplified drawings can show function or underlying principles of operation and can be used to impart human or animal characteristics to machinery. When-and-if (WHIF) charts can expand on a sequence of events or show cause-and-effect relationships. Each drawing must have a specific purpose to be effective.
  • Keywords
    Art; Humans; Machinery; Personnel; Training; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0361-1434
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPC.1981.6447843
  • Filename
    6447843