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Subject:Sources for Tables Info From:Pam Tatge <pamt -at- STEINBECK -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 8 Apr 1994 14:34:02 CDT
Here's a list of sources that may provide information about
table formats. Many of them come from William Horton's
"Illustrating Computer Documentation: The Art of Presenting
Information Graphically on Paper and Online" (Wiley & Sons, 1991).
I can't recommend any of these references because I don't have
them yet--but now that I have a list, I'm off to the library.
Thanks to everyone who answered my plea for help.
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Pam Tatge, Member Group Technical Staff
Texas Instruments Semiconductor Group, Houston
pamt -at- steinbeck -dot- sc -dot- ti -dot- com
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o Words Into Type, 3rd Edition
o Procedure Writing Principles and Practices
Batelle Press
505 King Ave.
Columbus, OH 43201-2693
614-424-6393
800-451-3453
ISBN 0-935470-68-9, $34.95
o The Technology of Text: Principles for Structuring,
Designing, and Displaying Text
A User-Oriented Approach to the Design of Tables and
Flowcharts (Patricia Wright)
Englewood, NJ, Educational Technology Publications, 1982
o The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983)
-and-
Envisioning Information (1990)
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT
o Graphic Design for the Electronic Age
Jan V. White
Watson#Guptill, New York, 1988
o Thinking with a Pencil
Henning Nelms
Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 1981
o Semiology of Graphics
Jacques Bertin
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI, 1983
o Graphics and Managerial Decision Making: Research Based
Guidelines
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa & Gary W. Dickson
Communications of the ACM 31(6), 1988
o Tables in Text
P. Burnhill, J. Hartley, and Margrette Young
Applied Ergonomics, 7 (1), 1976, pp. 13-18
o The Editing of Tables
Thomas W. Knecht
Proceedings of the 13th Practical Conference on Communication
Oak Ridge, TN; East Tennessee Chapter of STC, 1989, pp. 117-122
o Report Construction: Tables
Mary Fran Buehler
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, PC-20 (1), 1977
o Table Design#When the Writer/Editor Communicates Graphically
Mary Fran Buehler
Proceedings of 27th International Technical Communication
Conference (1980), pp. G 69-73
o How to Present Tabular Information Badly
Gerald A. Mann
Proceedings of 31st International Technical Communication
Conference (1984), pp. WE 48-51
o Quality Graphics: Writers Draw the Line
Deborah Grimstead
Proceedings of 34th International Technical Communication
Conference (1987), pp. VC 66-69
