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Readability formulas and technical communication
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1981The premise upon which readability formulas operate is that short words and short sentences are the measure of readable writing. This premise has (and was acknowledgedly designed with) limitations that are too often overlooked in enthusiastic attempts to reduce all writing to simple, quantitative analysis.
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Computer Automation of Two Readability Formulas
Journalism Quarterly, 1963When difficulties were encountered in programming the Farr-Jenkins-Paterson revision of the Flesch formula for the UNIVAC 1105 computer, the authors derived a new formula better adjusted to machine capabilities. They found it works twice as fast.
Wayne A. Danielson, Sam Dunn Bryan
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Readability formulas in the new millennium
ACM Journal of Computer Documentation, 2000While readability formulas were intended as a quick benchmark for indexing readabilty, they are inherently unreliable: they depend on criterion (calibration) passages too short to reflect cohesiveness, too varied to support between-formula comparisons, and too text-oriented to account for the effects of lists, enumerated sequences,and tables on text ...
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Assessing the validity of readability formulas
2021Dissertation to determine the validity of traditional readability formulas as measures of readability and ...
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Readability formulas: are they enough?
Contemporary pharmacy practice, 1981Because of FDA requirements concerning patient package inserts and growing awareness of the need for patient education, pharmacists and other health care practitioners have become interested in assessing the readability of written information intended for patients. Readability formulas have seemingly furnished a quick and easy answer. However, users of
N, Hoar, M E, Hoar
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Measuring the Readability of Business Writing: The Cloze Procedure Versus Readability Formulas
Journal of Business Communication, 1992Readability formulas determine the readability level of a passage by examining word difficulty and sentence length.
K. T. Stevens +2 more
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A Closer Look at Readability Formulas
Journalism Quarterly, 1948Readability scores can give a reasonably accurate measurement of reading difficulty, but they cannot guarantee good writing, Mr. Kearl warns. He began this article at Wisconsin, where he is assistant professor of agricultural journalism, and finished it while completing residence for the Ph. D. at Minnesota.
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Understanding the limitations of readability formulas
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1981Readability formulas are becoming increasingly popular as a tool that writers use to test and revise their material. Used appropriately, a readability formula can provide a quick and easy general measure of how difficult a text may be for its readers. Writers who use a readability formula, however, should do so with caution.
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Readability Formulae and the Structure of Text
Educational Review, 1983Abstract Present readability formulae are subject to numerous criticisms. One problem is that they are generally calculated on factors at sentence and sub‐sentential level. However, in linguistics, factors above the level of the sentence are being increasingly recognised as important in language, whether spoken or written. In this article one aspect of
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Use of Readability Formulas in Selecting Textbooks
The Elementary School Journal, 1949IN FORMER years the selection of textbooks was usually made by administrative or supervisory officers or by boards of education. In keeping with the trend toward democratic participation in determining educational policies and practices, there has, however, been a growing tendency to appoint committees of teachers to select the new textbooks.
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