Information Mapping

[Sarah Mahoney <smahoney -at- U -dot- WASHINGTON -dot- EDU>]

I'd like to "second" what Stephen says about Information Mapping.
I have found it to be very useful in some circumstances, and not
so useful in others.  I agree that the best approach is to analyze
the project and use whichever writing style or format which best
satisfies the demands of that project.

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Sarah Mahoney, Alumni/Donor Information Systems    (206) 685-8979
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA         (206) 685-8911 FAX
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On Mon, 31 Jan 1994, Stephen Bernhardt wrote:

> IN response:
> > Don't dismiss it outright, however. Information Mapping was an attempt
> > at rewriting old, common sense presentation formats for sciences --
> > flowcharting, spacial relationships, recipes, procedures, etc. In trying
> > to turn IM into a science, IM authors gave it big time bog down.
> >
> INfo Mapping is also a business, of teaching and training.  As such it is
> a sound idea reified into a full blown "way to do things".  It also
> stresses the info to be mapped into predetermined slots.  It always pushes
> too hard on the doc writer to have a diagram in the same place on every
> page.  It does offere some nice training for writing chunks of language
> and for identifying what those chunks do.  It offers high predictablility
> for readers--same stuff in the same place on eery page.  We shouold take
> what is useful from it and modify it to suit the particular demands of a
> particular piece of doc.


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