Information Mapping in more detail
Great for readers and writers
Information Mapping gives you a set of strategies and tools for working with information. It enables you to develop complex content quickly - no matter what the media.
Information Mapping offers guidelines for presenting content in usable ways that suit your readers. They find information faster and retain more of what they read.
Read below how Information Mapping helps with:
- Analysing information needs
- Structuring the content for the task
- Presenting the content for ease of use
Analysing information needs
You need to know how to analyse your readers' information needs. Information Mapping shows you how to:
- Follow a strategy that analyses task and audience requirements.
- Follow guidelines for analysing subject matter.
- Identify gaps in the content early on.
Structuring the content for the task
You want to organise the content you write into structures that help your readers. Information Mapping shows you how. Your readers will easily find the information they need now and skip over information that may not need until later.
The Information Mapping approach shows you how to:
- Follow a systematic, task-based approach to organising your content.
- Create a modular structure.
- Update standalone modules easily, with minimal disruption.
Presenting content for ease of use
You want to be able to write content that wins recognition for its clarity and appeal. Information Mapping shows you how to
- Write consistently, and at the appropriate level of detail
- Present different types of information in consistent ways.
- Use presentation formats enabling readers to clearly understand purpose.
Where to now?
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