Procedural Instructions for Surgical Patient Education Modules: Spatial Perspectives in Technical Communication

Technical writers and illustrators often find it reasonably difficult to understand the exact way technical graphics could be designed for complex procedural tasks. Sometimes the problem is due to the multiple sequences involved in the process, graphical angles, the complexity of individual actions and activities, user experience, learning curve and their preference for text and visuals and importantly, the way readers prefer to mentally animate procedures. This book adopts a unique experimental approach in attempting to explore whether and how combinations of spatial perspectives in text and graphics can help readers mentally animate and comprehend a complex sequence of procedural acts as seen in surgical patient education modules. Importantly, this book discusses various textual perspectives and graphical complexities for specific surgical situations and mechanical processes in general, that technical writers and illustrators might find interesting for designing any kind of procedural instructions.