The purpose of this study is to prepare design principles and utilization strategies of the visual organizers, which enables learners to comprehend the text and to understand text structure better in the electronic document space. For the theoretical underpinnings of the visual design of electronic text, a variety of principles and strategies, techniques were examined, and then
visual organizer\'s conceptual identification, design principles and a prototype were developed.
In the process of identifying the principles of designing the visual organizers, wide range of relevant literatures were reviewed and analyzed. Four design elements were immerged to develop the Visual Organizers Prototypes : information representation styles(pictorial or verbal), degree of abstraction(concrete or abstract), visual verbal relationships(visual dominated or verbal dominated), dimension of visual intelligence(interpretation or operation).
The results of this study seemed to demonstrate the positive potential of visual organizers in designing electronic text. By reflecting structural attributes, by arranging text structures, and by providing the information of location, form and length the visual organizers seemed to provide vital information to the learners in e-learning situation. The research suggested design principles of electronic text in regard to the visual organizers. Five specific recommendations for future research were suggested.