Reading to decide

  • Authors:
  • Michael J. Albers

  • Affiliations:
  • East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Many communication situations have shifted to complex situations where people read information and make decisions (they read to decide). With reading to decide, information needs revolve around information seeking and decision making. After finding information, people need to interpret and apply it. Writing documents focused on reading to decide means shifting from creating texts about how to perform tasks to creating texts with an understanding people's information needs and how they interact with information.