In Defence of Style Guides

Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018 ◽

10.4242/balisagevol21.nordstrom01 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ari Nordström

Keyword(s):

Twilight Zone ◽

Style Guides

This is a paper about that twilight zone beyond schemas, the place where style guides, those arcane instructions to authors about house style and how to produce content that is not only valid but stylistically consistent, are supposed to kick in but, these days, increasingly don't. It's a paper written in defence of style guides, why they are needed, and why better tools cannot replace them.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Conservation of coevolving protein interfaces bridges prokaryote-eukaryote homologies in the twilight zone.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.727107898.793530233 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Wass

Keyword(s):

Twilight Zone ◽

Protein Interfaces

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Epistemic Twilight Zone Of Sexual Consent

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3689529 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar

Keyword(s):

Sexual Consent ◽

Twilight Zone

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Style Guides and the Garlic, Shallots, and Butter of Scientific Writing

Chemistry of Materials ◽

10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01612 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 33 (11) ◽

pp. 3865-3867

Author(s):

Darren J. Lipomi

Keyword(s):

Scientific Writing ◽

Style Guides

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Influence of diagram layout and scrolling on understandability of BPMN processes: an eye tracking experiment with BPMN diagrams

Information Technology and Management ◽

10.1007/s10799-021-00327-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Lübke ◽

Maike Ahrens ◽

Kurt Schneider

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Business Process ◽

Process Modeling ◽

Business Models ◽

Business Process Modeling ◽

Process Models ◽

Software Systems ◽

Process Diagrams ◽

Style Guides ◽

Important Activity

AbstractBusiness process modeling is an important activity for developing software systems—especially within digitization projects and when realizing digital business models. Specifying requirements and building executable workflows is often done by using BPMN 2.0 process models. Although there are several style guides available for BPMN, e.g., by Silver and Richard (BPMN method and style, vol 2, Cody-Cassidy Press, Aptos, 2009), there has not been much empirical research done into the consequences of the diagram layout. In particular, layouts that require scrolling have not been investigated yet. The aim of this research is to establish layout guidelines for business process modeling that help business process modelers to create more understandable business process diagrams. For establishing benefits and penalties of different layouts, a controlled eye tracking experiment was conducted, in which data of 21 professional software developers was used. Our results show that horizontal layouts are less demanding and that as many diagram elements as possible should be put on the initially visible screen area because such diagram elements are viewed more often and longer. Additionally, diagram elements related to the reader’s task are read more often than those not relevant to the task. BPMN modelers should favor a horizontal layout and use a more complex snake or multi-line layout whenever the diagrams are too large to fit on one page in order to support BPMN model comprehension.

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