Daniël Janssen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Daniël Janssen is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1388-8951 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9722
Title
Reading and Writing Public Documents
Edited by Daniël Janssen and Rob Neutelings
Governments communicate with the public through all kinds of documents: forms, brochures, letters, policy papers, and so on. These public documents have an important role in any democracy and their design very much affects the efficiency with which governments can perform their tasks.Document… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 1] 2001. vi, 304 pp.
2006 Problems in the Field: Writing from the start Text features which enable cognitive strategies during text comprehension, Oostendorp, Herre van (ed.), pp. 68–70 | Miscellaneous
2004 Client-oriented correspondance: How do you actually do it? Information Design Journal 12:3, pp. 187–189 | Miscellaneous
2002 Problems in the field: Learning from readers Document Design 3:1, pp. 13–15 | Miscellaneous
2001 6. Improving the quality of public documents: Or: Why training public writers often doesn’t work Reading and Writing Public Documents, Janssen, Daniël and Rob Neutelings (eds.), pp. 105–124 | Chapter
Did you ever teach an in-company writing training, visited the company again a couple of weeks later and asked yourself why the people who underwent your training were not using half of the things you taught them and still produce bad writing? The answer to this question might be that improving the… read more
2001 9. Collaborative writing for the government Reading and Writing Public Documents, Janssen, Daniël and Rob Neutelings (eds.), pp. 171–210 | Chapter
Have you ever tried to read a governmental policy issue paper? Did you enjoy reading it? Probably not. Policy papers are usually considered to be a bad read. Not because policy writers are bad writers. On the contrary. The characteristics of policy papers are the direct result of a complex process… read more
2001 1. Introduction Reading and Writing Public Documents, Janssen, Daniël and Rob Neutelings (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter
2001 Problems in the field: ‘Improving’ the structure of business texts Document Design 2:1, pp. 58–60 | Article
2001 Problems in the field: Writing good reports together Document Design 2:2, pp. 152–154 | Miscellaneous
2001 Problems in the field: A crisis means bad news, but the reverse doesn’ hold The Pragmatics of Crisis, Jacobs, Geert and Luuk Van Waes (eds.), pp. 293–294 | Miscellaneous
2001 10. Strategic revision of public documents: How policy writers revise documents in order to reach consensus Reading and Writing Public Documents, Janssen, Daniël and Rob Neutelings (eds.), pp. 211–232 | Chapter
Earlier research has shown that policy writers are strategists. Somehow, they know how to deal effectively with comments on draft versions of their documents in order to satisfy the various stakeholders in the (collaborative) writing process and generate consensus on their texts. But how do they do… read more
1999 Problems in the Field: Texts and text design in the real world Document Design 1:2, pp. 115–117 | Miscellaneous
1999 Problems in the Field Document Design 1:1, pp. 35–37 | Article
1999 Problems in the field: 'Improving' the structure of business texts Document Design 1:3, pp. 182–184 | Miscellaneous
1991 Tekstplanning en Tekstproduktie Schrijven in moedertaal en vreemde taal, pp. 80–91 | Article
In our article we describe the functions of so-called 'text plans1 in two different processes of text production: (1) dictating business letters and (2) writing governmental policy issue papers. Text plans are defined as: abstract, schematic representations of the text a writer/dictator wants to… read more