"This is a practical guide for teachers and trainers who are responsible for designing and writing instructional material. Focusing on layout and the visual presentation of text, the author of this work uses ""before and after"" formats to illustrate the importance of clarity, structure and emphasis."@en
"General guidelines for the writers of instructional materials are provided, with emphasis on clarity in the presentation of textual information and related graphic aids. Some basic points about typographic planning are presented for typographers and printers, as well as writers, and it is suggested that some typographic practices may actually hinder rather than help users of the text. Examples of instructional text in their original state and then in revised versions illustrate the points made. More general issues discussed include the functions of illustrations, tabular materials and the like, and various alternatives to conventional prose for instructional text are proposed. More specialized issues, I.E., lecture handouts, bibliographies, indexes, and reference materials, are also discussed, as well as the problems of evaluating instructional text. A brief annotated bibliography is provided. (Author/JVP)."@en

Designing Instructional Text