Make the text reader-friendly and include applicable pictures or illustrations to accompany the text.
The text readers AvantGo (AvantGo Inc, San Mateo, CA, USA) and iSilo (www.isilo.com), which convert word-processing and HTML documents, were used for textual medical reference information.
The ultimate MP3 text reader would bypass this problem by loading its converted files directly onto the MP3 player.
While the core focus of the app is on the actual text, readers can consult glossaries, notes, photos and synopses at any point in the script.
At the moment, the weakest MP3-enabled text reader is iSpeak, from Fonix ($70 at www.fonix.com).
A world where, to access the "virgin text," readers must disable features and fight the temptation to read a book littered with the signposts of what others have found noteworthy?
Within the text, the reader discovers two tales, interwoven.
In the text, the reader is straightforwardly told that certain people are present, but the endnotes amend these assertions, revealing that documents "do not place" these people "in the house on the day," although "their presence seems likely".
On the other side, by interpreting the text the reader himself may disclose his own contemporary world and re-interpret himself in the context of his contemporary world.
In the text, the reader follows a mother and her two children, Charlotte and Henry (perhaps named after two of Trimmer's own children ), on a series of nature walks during which the mother describes the wonders of God's creation.
You may be able to get these from student groups, from your instructor, or from the text or reader.
