Comprehension of what is communicated in a text can be tested to check a text's effectiveness. In most text types, including persuasive texts, comprehension is the prerequisite for successful information processing. In ...

Examination papers have until now received little attention in the field of document design. This text type was identified as a possible source of academic underachievement among a group of South African technical college ...

In applied communication studies warnings (as components of instructional texts) are often characterized in terms of criteria for effectiveness. An idealised model for warnings include the following elements: a signal word ...

The main purpose of this contribution is to broaden the understanding of variables surrounding the stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS by analyzing a corpus of Afrikaans-speaking teenagers' narratives on HIV/AIDS. ...