Desktop publishing in education |
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| Authors: | W. Hall J. Layman |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton;La Sainte Union College of Higher Education, Southampton |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The term 'desktop publishing' has received much media coverage in recent months in both the commercial and educational press. School-based 'desktop publishing' packages are at the moment poor imitations of full-specification systems. This paper discusses the state of desktop publishing in education today and demonstrates the weaknesses of the systems available for use in the classroom. The skills required for desktop publishing are interrelated in a complex way and cannot be presented in a hierarchical fashion. A model of the functional processes involved is suggested in the paper and analysed in terms of the skills required. |
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| Keywords: | Desktop publishing DTP Text processing Word processing Graphics Skills Education |
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