This is a practical guide for teachers and trainers who are responsible for designing and writing instructional material. Focusing on layout and the visual presentation of text, the author of this work uses "before and after" formats to illustrate the importance of clarity, structure and emphasis.

This practical guide to designing and writing instructional materials has been extensively revised and updated. It particularly emphasizes layout and the visual presentation of text for the purpose of teaching, instructing or directing people. The author stresses the importance of advance planning in the layout of instructional materials. Decisions such as the choice of page-size, typesize and typeface for clarity, structure and emphasis are discussed in detail and examples of instructional text are provided in "before and after" formats. The role of illustrations, tables and graphs, and the presentation of quantitative information in diagrams, charts and symbols are also discussed. The book concludes with a discussion of the evaluation of instructional text in terms of content, typography and teaching effectiveness.

Title: The Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas. Adopted by the Sixth LegislatureAuthor: John Woods Harris, Oliver Cromwell Hartley, James WilliePublisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law Description: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of American legal history --- an archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Yale Law LibraryDocumentID: LPSY0081400SecondaryDocType: State CodesSourceBibCitation: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926PublicationPlace: United StatesImprintFull: Galveston: Printed at the News Office, 1857ImprintYear: 1857Collation: vi, 3]188, xliv p. 23 cm