2020 conference paper

Addressing the speculative "you": Contextualizing the readers of documentation

SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.

By: J. Swarts n 

Contributors: J. Swarts n 

TL;DR: The poster presents a corpus analysis of a stylistic feature of topic-based documentation: the speculative “you” that signals important information to help readers adapt the content for their situated uses. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: March 3, 2023

The poster presents a corpus analysis of a stylistic feature of topic-based documentation: the speculative “you.” The feature signals important information to help readers adapt the content for their situated uses. The feature is illustrated with examples and the author offers recommendations for amplifying this information.