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Assessing ChatGPT's Educational Potential in Lung Cancer Radiotherapy From Clinician and Patient Perspectives: Content Quality and Readability Analysis.

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Readability formulas: Cautions and criteria

Patient Education and Counseling, 1991
Health care practitioners are being confronted with the uneven fit between the reading skill level of patients and the reading difficulty level of health-based literature. Readability formulas are being used to obtain a seemingly precise measure of the latter.
Cathy D Meade, Cyrus F Smith
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Readability formulas: Useful or useless?

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1987
In an interview with Dr. J. Peter Kincaid, the value of readability formulas and computer editing systems to the engineer who writes on the job is explored. Dr. Kincaid developed the Kincaid Readability Formula, the standard used in judging the reading levels of Department of Defense manuals. The presentation is in a question and answer format.
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Understanding the limitations of readability formulas

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1981
Readability 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 Formulas

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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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 FORMULAS: AN OVERVIEW

Journal of Documentation, 1987
The 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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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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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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Assessing the validity of readability formulas

2021
Dissertation to determine the validity of traditional readability formulas as measures of readability and ...
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