Flowcharts, Swimlanes, and Timelines: Alternatives to Prose in Communicating Legal-bureaucratic Instructions to Civil Servants
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Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Volume 32, issue 2, pp. 229-272
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Government-published documents often fail to communicate clearly – with citizens, but also with “professional readers” like civil servants. Visual or multimodal approaches remain rare. In particular, this is an unhelpful practice in regards to legal-bureaucratic instructions (e.g. contracts, rules, policies), which exist to guide compliant behavior. The study explores the development and the experimental evaluation of a diagrammatic guide for public procurement Terms & Conditions, addressed to civil servants. Results show that the diagrammatic format, in comparison to prose, significantly enhances comprehension accuracy and answering speed, and is perceived as more appealing and functional by the users.Description
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Passera, S 2018, 'Flowcharts, Swimlanes, and Timelines : Alternatives to Prose in Communicating Legal-bureaucratic Instructions to Civil Servants', Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 229-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651917746459