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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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Readability Formulas May Mislead You
Patient Education and Counseling, 1985Abstract The health-care literature has embraced readability formulas as a reasonable means of judging patient-education materials without adequately acknowledging the formulas' practical and theoretical limitations. This paper provides some background on readability formulas, describes their proper use in health education, and highlights some ...
Peggy Elam
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A New Formula for Vietnamese Text Readability Assessment
2018 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 2018Text readability has an important role in text drafting and document selecting. Most studies on the readability of the text have been made long ago for English and some common languages. There are few researches about Vietnamese text readability and most of them are performed more than three decades ago on very small corpora.
Dien Dinh
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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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English for Mariners Coursebook: How Does Readability Formula Rate the Readability Level of Texts? [PDF]
Esteem Journal of English Education Study Programme, 2022 Readability level of marine texts do influences cadets’ ability in comprehending Maritime English reading materials. This research investigates the readability level of texts in English for Mariners, an English Maritime coursebook published by Language
Giovanni Oktavinanda
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022 Readability is a core component of information retrieval (IR) tools as the complexity of a resource directly affects its relevance: a resource is only of use if the user can comprehend it. Even so, the link between readability and IR is often overlooked.
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READABILITY FORMULAS: AN OVERVIEW
Journal of Documentation, 1987The aim of this paper is to review some of the findings in the field of readability research. First, the differences in meaning between the terms ‘readability’ and ‘legibility’ are discussed. Next, the origins and developments of readability formulas are examined in detail. Then, the best‐known formulas for English language material are described so as
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Management Communication Quarterly, 1992
The legitimacy and methodology of using statistical measures to assess the readability of documents has been widely debated in the business and management communication literature. This article identifies major philosophical, methodological, and pedagogical issues in the controversy and explores their implications for using numerical readability ...
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The legitimacy and methodology of using statistical measures to assess the readability of documents has been widely debated in the business and management communication literature. This article identifies major philosophical, methodological, and pedagogical issues in the controversy and explores their implications for using numerical readability ...
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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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