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Readability formulas and technical communication

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1981
The 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 Formulae and the Structure of Text

Educational Review, 1983
Abstract 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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Readability formulas: are they enough?

Contemporary pharmacy practice, 1981
Because 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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Readability formulas may mislead you

Patient Education and Counseling, 1985
Abstract 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 ...
James W. Pichert, Peggy Elam
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Readability Formula for Russian Texts: A Modified Version

2018
The authors of the article offer new readability formulas for academic texts which provide a comparatively higher degree of accuracy than other Russian readability formulas. The results achieved are due to using original syntactic, lexical and frequency metrics ignored in previous research on Russian readability.
Marina Solnyshkina, Vladimir Ivanov 0001, Valery D. Solovyev   +2 more
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A Closer Look at Readability Formulas

Journalism Quarterly, 1948
Readability 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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On Readability Formulas: A Critical Analysis for Teachers of the Deaf

American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
This article discusses the limitations of readability formulas, which are often used to guide the development and selection of reading materials for hearing-impaired students. Aspects of the reader-writer-text interaction that make for comprehensible texts, but are not accounted for by readability formulas, are described.
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Computer Automation of Two Readability Formulas

Journalism Quarterly, 1963
When 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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The use of readability formulas in health care

Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1996
Abstract Abstract Readability formulas are being increasingly used to measure the understandability of written information in clinical and health settings. This paper examines the most commonly used formulas (Dale-Chall Formula, Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Formula, Fog Index, Fry Readability Graph, and SMOG Grading).
P. Ley, T. Florio
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Use of Readability Formulas in Selecting Textbooks

The Elementary School Journal, 1949
IN 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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