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IEEE Access, 2021 Websites are rich resources for the public to access health information, and readability ensures whether the information can be comprehended. Apart from the linguistic features originated in traditional readability formulas, the reading ability of an ...
Yanmeng Liu +4 more
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Why readability formulas fail [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1981 Being able to measure the readability of a text with a simple formula is an attractive prospect, and many groups have been using readability formulas in a variety of situations where estimates of text complexity are thought to be necessary. The most obvious and explicit use of readability formulas is by educational publishers designing basal and ...
Bruce, Bertram C. +2 more
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Evaluating four readability formulas for Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017 For almost a hundred years now, readability formulas have been used to measure how difficult it is to comprehend a given text. To date, four readability formulas have been developed for Afrikaans.
Jansen, Carel +2 more
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Readability Formula for Instructional Materials in Science
Davao Research Journal, 2000 The study developed and validated a readability formula using measurable variables of readability for physics instructional materials. In developing the formula, .30 reading passages of no less than 100 words each were selected from 18 different books ...
Jonathan Bayogan
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Reassessing the Accuracy and Use of Readability Formulae
Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2014 Purpose – The purpose of the study is to review readability formulae and offer a critique, based on a comparison of the grading of a variety of texts given by six well-known formulae. Methodology – A total of 64 texts in English were selected either
Dahlia Janan, David Wray
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Fundamentals of materials (text readability evaluation) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Fundamentals of materials represent a core subject at engineering universities dealing with various construction materials. The study of the discipline and the acquiring of knowledge demand a properly designed manual.
Kiselnikov Aleksander +2 more
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Text difficulty vs text readability: Students’ voices
Edulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2022 Reading is an essential skill to be mastered, especially by university students and it is the lecturers’ responsibility to train their students to develop their reading skill.
Agus Widyantoro +2 more
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On the readability of monotone Boolean formulae [PDF]
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2009 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Khaled M. Elbassioni +2 more
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Going Beyond Readability Formula: How Do Titles Contribute to the Readability of Essays? [PDF]
International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2020 The belief that genre specific reading provides numerous benefits for apprenticing writers is something we in the field of writing education value as an underlying constant. Accepting this, writing center directors stock their self-access library shelves
John R. Baker
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Readability Indices Do Not Say It All on a Text Readability
Analytics, 2023 We propose a universal readability index, GU, applicable to any alphabetical language and related to cognitive psychology, the theory of communication, phonics and linguistics.
Emilio Matricciani
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