Week 4: 3 points and a question

1. Flowers says documents should be designed to suffice a readers’ goals and the “reading strategies people bring to functional documents.”

2. According to Flowers, readers frequently recode text to form a “concrete story or event by creating a condition/action sequence or by supplying agents and action” in order to understand text and make it functional.

3. Flowers points out when designing a document think about how the document is used a catalyst for action.

Question: Please explain the “bottom-up” and “top-down” processing strategies in more detail.