How professionals read online documents to formulate recommendations

M.S. Melenhorst; Thea van der Geest

doi:10.1109/IPCC.2003.1245464

How professionals read online documents to formulate recommendations

M.S. Melenhorst, Thea van der Geest

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

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Abstract

Professionals often read with the purpose of formulating a judgment based on what they have read. Increasingly, the documents to be used are available electronically. This adds to the complexity of the task. In the presented study, seven participants read two sets of articles that were used to formulate recommendations regarding two technical communication issues. Readers proved to be not only driven by their judgment task but by the articles they were reading as well. This strategy reduced reading efficiency. An electronic notepad was used to store copied citations from the articles. Readers evaluated these citations superficially during reading, while they evaluated them more thoroughly when the recommendations had to be written.

Original language	Undefined
Pages	34-36
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2003.1245464
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, IPCC 2003 - Orlando, United States Duration: 21 Sept 2003 → 24 Sept 2003

Conference

Conference	IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, IPCC 2003
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando
Period	21/09/03 → 24/09/03

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IR-55840

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