Document use involves reading, interpreting, and writing (these usually occur simultaneously such as when you complete a form). Document use can also involve the actual creation or production of documents. Document use includes print and non-print media (a computer screen, a television screen, an LCD display, a measurement gauge, a clock, etc.). Document TypesForms – these are structured documents that may contain lists or combinations of lists. Workers complete forms by adding information and/or read completed forms as information sources. Tables and Schedules – a compact arrangement of words, numbers or signs – or combinations of them – in rows and columns to display a set of facts or relationships. Tables and schedules are the result of combining two or more simple lists. The grid lines may or may not be shown on a table. Workers read, create and enter information into these documents. Table and schedule types: combined lists, intersecting lists, nested lists. Graphs and Charts – these are visual representations of the information found in numerical tables. As a result, graphs and charts use the same kinds of document structures as combined lists, intersecting lists and nested lists.
Maps – these may depict the spatial arrangement of elements such as rivers or roads over a given geographic area (e.g.) road maps, country maps. They may also portray the distribution of a characteristic of some unobserved phenomenon in relation to a geographic area (e.g.) weather maps, population density maps. Map types: reference maps, thematic maps |
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