Design Conventions
Yes
No
N/A
Personnel Conventions
106. Military personnel comply with service dress and
consistent throughout the production.
____ ____ ____
107. Actors, role players, and participants use safe
procedures and comply with directives and all
applicable safety rules and regulations
____
____
____
Language Conventions
108. The program (text or narration) uses active voice.
____ ____ ____
109. The program uses inoffensive non-sexist language.
____ ____ ____
110. The tone is clear, concise, and courteous.
____ ____ ____
111. The program used the imperative mode with the
subject understood or implied to address the
student.
____ ____ ____
112. Sentences are short and to the point.
____ ____ ____
113. The program uses affirmative sentence structure
whenever possible.
____ ____ ____
114. Abbreviations and technical jargon, if used, are
common knowledge to the target audience or they
are defined in the lesson.
____ ____ ____
115. The program does not use slang or non-technical
jargon.
____
____
____
116. The student can easily look up abbreviations and
technical jargon in a glossary or help section.
____ ____ ____
117. New terms are defined the first time they appear
in a module.
____
____
____
118. Terms and definitions are consistently used
throughout the program.
____ ____ ____
119. The program's language is appropriate for the
target audience.
____ ____ ____
120. Sentences do not wrap over multiple screens.
____ ____ ____
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