Patient Education

Summarizing information for lay audiences requires that you realistically appraise the reading skills of your audience. This problem is easily addressed with simple tools, but the importance of visual information is much harder to assess. We will be comparing different versions of the same information in order to understand how to best serve patients. This assignment will develop, in part, out of the paper your produce prior to this unit. In the meantime, I suggest you review the following:

• Interview With Edward Tufte
  
  
• Bad visual information . . . really really bad
  
  
• Visual Data: how electronic tools produce bad representations
  
  
• View a a good example of integrated text and image.

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Details of this assignment will be announced later in the term.

1. Peer Review: discourse
2. FDA Approval Processes
3. The Limits of Discourse
4. Patient Education

1. Writing Resources
   
   
2. Content Tools
   

1. Instructor Email hugh@culik.com
   
   
2. Peer Assistance [list serve]