Technical Translation: Usability Strategies for Translating Technical Documentation

Appendix 8: QUIS Satisfaction Data 
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Document Outline

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• Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
• Technical Translation
  • The Importance of Technical Translation
  • Some Misconceptions
  • The Reality of Technical Translation
  • The Aim of Technical Translation
  • The Translator's Role
  • Theory in Technical Translation
  • Conclusions
• Technical Communication
  • The Nature of Technical Documentation
  • Typical Technical Documents
  • Software Documentation
  • Software User Guides
  • Software User Guides & Quality
  • Assessing User Guide Quality
  • Conclusions
• Understanding Users
  • Usability
  • The Human Cognitive System
  • Perception
  • Memory
  • Cognitive Processing
  • Attention & Selection
  • Learning
  • Reasoning & Problem-Solving
  • The Transition from Problem-Solving to Skill
  • Conclusions
• Usability Engineering
  • Interfaces
  • Cognetics
  • Understanding How We Read User Guides
  • Implementing Usability Measures
  • Iconic Linkage
  • Iconic Linkage as a Cognitive Strategy
  • Conclusions
• Assessing Usability
  • Empirical Usability Evaluation
  • Historical Problems in Document Usability Research
  • Approaches to Empirical Evaluation
  • Survey Methods
  • Participants in a Usability Evaluation
  • Usability Evaluation Procedures
  • Experiment to Test the Impact of Iconic Linkage
  • Main Study
  • Results of Usability Evaluation
  • Conclusions
• Conclusions
  • Cognetics and Iconic Linkage
  • Future Directions
• Bibliography
• Appendices