Engineering Topics in Multimodal Texts
Engineering Topics in Multimodal Texts

Summary/Abstract: Audiences usually expect texts to be accompanied by graphics that meet requirements that influence comprehension and accessibility of technical texts, such as the use of special fonts, colors, types of graphics employed. Multimodal texts or documents are those that incorporate any combination of graphics, verbal text, animation and sound. In this paper we analyse some samples of discourse on engineering topics, published in research articles and popular science magazines.

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