Familiar Categories and Documentary Forms: Readers’ Perspectives

This paper presents an evaluation of the ways in which three different groups of readers (recordkeepers, teachers and secondary school students) categorise documents. This is used to show how they understand documents, documentary forms and genre. Drawing on a card sorting activity conducted around...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amanda Cossham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Akron Press 2015-12-01
Series:Proceedings from the Document Academy
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Online Access:https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol2/iss1/12