Reading and Writing Public Documents
Published on 23. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-90-272-3201-4 (ISBN)
Description
Governments communicate with the public through all kinds of documents: forms, brochures, letters, policy papers, and so on. These public documents have an important role in any democracy and their design very much affects the efficiency with which governments can perform their tasks.
Document designers, linguists and other communication experts in the Netherlands have been studying public documents from a design point of view as well as empirically for decades. In this book, the most prominent of these researchers present the results of their work, collectively giving an overview of various recurring problems in government-to-public communication, and providing suggestions for problem solving.
Document designers, linguists and other communication experts in the Netherlands have been studying public documents from a design point of view as well as empirically for decades. In this book, the most prominent of these researchers present the results of their work, collectively giving an overview of various recurring problems in government-to-public communication, and providing suggestions for problem solving.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3201-4 (9789027232014)
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Daniël Janssen | Rob Neutelings
Reading and Writing Public Documents
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02/2001
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Content
1. 1. Introduction (by Janssen, Daniel); 2. 2. How research can lead to better government forms (by Jansen, Carel); 3. 3. Undercover research into text quality as a tool for communication management: The case of the Dutch tax department (by Renkema, Jan); 4. 4. Optimizing public information brochures: Formative evaluation in document design processes (by Jong, Menno de); 5. 5. Public documents in a multilingual context (by Hulst, Jacqueline); 6. 6. Improving the quality of public documents: Or: Why training public writers often doesn't work (by Janssen, Daniel); 7. 7. The lack of clarity in a sentence: The style of official documents in Dutch (by Jansen, Frank); 8. 8. Convincing citizens: The role of argument quality (by Hoeken, Hans); 9. 9. Collaborative writing for the government (by Janssen, Daniel); 10. 10. Strategic revision of public documents: How policy writers revise documents in order to reach consensus (by Mast, Niels van der); 11. 11. Trust but verify: Local suspensions of the cooperation principle in political communication (by Neutelings, Rob); 12. 12. Reading to assess in professional life: Reading styles of Dutch parliamentarians (by Neutelings, Rob); 13. References; 14. About the authors; 15. Index