Enhancing Technical Communication: Contemporary Applications for Advance Organizers

Author

Price, Kenneth R.

Author_Institution

Western Carolina Univ., Cullowhee

fYear

2007

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The basic principles of advance organizers set down by David Ausubel have become among the most widely used methods of instruction in schools today, but this approach has been limited for the most part to classroom instruction in primary and secondary schools and has not seen widespread discussion and application in technical communication theory and practice. This presentation examines the concept of advance organizers, categorizes the different types of advance organizers - textual, oral, and graphical - then illustrates how professional communicators may use rich media product simulation software to expand these categories with second-generation advance organizers that provide multimodality, interactivity, and feedback to technical documents.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational institutions; technical presentation; advance organizers; classroom instruction; contemporary applications; primary schools; professional communicators; rich media product simulation software; secondary schools; technical communication theory; technical documents; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer aided instruction; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Education; Educational institutions; Feedback; Information retrieval; Professional communication; advance organizers; aural learners; computer-assisted instruction; graphic organizers; learning; multimodal; rich media; schema; software simulations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Professional Communication Conference, 2007. IPCC 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1242-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1243-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464047

Filename

4464047