The User Manual of Samsung Galaxy S4

这是一篇对三星S4手机用户使用手册的解读

In this assignment, the user manual of Samsung’s new generation smart cellphone, Galaxy S4, is evaluated to judge whether this manual was written for professional or ordinary audiences. After carefully review, its section division, format and language all show that the intended audiences of this manual are general-use readers. The manual wants to convey both the basic and advanced functions in a concise and simple way to even new users of cellphones. The sections of this manual clearly divided the functions of a smart cellphone into 10 parts. A great number of pictures are inserted into all parts of the manual to help ordinary people understand the operation methods of each function. What’s more, the sentences and words selected all over the manual are in common use. All of these characteristics will be described below.

Open this manual, the table of contents and section division give people a feeling of fresh. There are no copious description at the beginning of the manual. “Getting Started”, “Entering Text” and all other titles like these convince a new user that she/he will easily manipulate this high-tech device just do as the manual shows. Every section describes one basic operation of Galaxy S5 such as calling, messages or multimedia. If a user have not experience about an Android cellphone device, he can begin reading from “Getting Started”. If a user has known the basic operations of common smartphones very well, he could pick his unfamiliar section such as “Connections” to read. Thus, users can easily choose their interested parts to read without keep wandering in other unrelated contents.
The second obvious feature of this manual is its large scale adoption of illustrations. By lengthy words, a new user may unable to understand a simply operation of a device, such as how to remove the battery cover. However, only one illustration is enough to explain this process clearly. The user can see a 3D picture of his device in the manual with simple words such as “Release Latch” beside. He only need to put his own device in front of manual and act as the illustration shows. Most people will admit that the pictures are easier to understand than dense words crowded in one page. Therefore, the numerous illustrations also reveal that this manual was written for general-use readers.
At last, primary words and sentences used all over the manual shows that it is understandable to even children or the elders. For example, no compound sentences or subordinate clauses can be found in this manual except in the “Warranty Information” section, the unnecessary reading part. Besides, the manual prefer to choose simple words such as touch, tap and press. You can hardly find professional descriptions such as the principles of multi-core CPU in the center of this cellphone. What the reader see are all how the product is user-friendly.

To sum up, we can conclude that this manual was written for non-technical audiences and the purpose of the manual is to guide users to master all the new and old functions of Samsung Galaxy 4 smartphone. The clearly divided sections, the large numbers of illustrations and easy understanding language all lead to the final conclusion.