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'''Form and Document Creation''' is one of the things that [[Technical communication|technical communicators]] do as part of creating [[deliverable]]s for their companies or clients. Document design is: “the field of theory and practice aimed at creating comprehensible, persuasive and usable functional documents”.<ref>Jansen</ref> These forms and documents can have many different purposes such as collecting information or providing information.

==Visualization and Visual Communication==

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===Definition===

Technical communicators must take data and convert it into information; this process is known as [[Information Visualization|visualization]], or [[visual communication]].<ref name=blythe347>Blythe, 347.</ref> Because of the widespread use of [[digital media]], modern technical communicators havemust aalso lot tonow think about concerning visualization foras it relates to digital forms and documents. Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman, editors of the book ''Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think'', “definedefine ‘visualization’visualization as the: ‘use"use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of data to amplify cognition".’”<ref name=blythe347/> Though many forms and documents will still have a hard paper copy to distribute infor officesdistribution, most forms and documents are now utilized online in some fashion; this is why there is such focus on the computer-supported representations for maximal cognition. Brumberger defines visual communication as: “designing"designing print, Web, and multimedia documents…creating visual displays of information/data, generating other visual material…and any other communication tasks which rely on visual languagelanguage”.”<ref>Brumberger, 373.</ref>

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