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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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Measuring the Readability of Business Writing: The Cloze Procedure Versus Readability Formulas

Journal of Business Communication, 1992
Readability formulas determine the readability level of a passage by examining word difficulty and sentence length.
K. T. Stevens, K. C. Stevens, W. P. Stevens   +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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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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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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Validity of readability formulas.

Journal of Applied Psychology, 1953
Charles E. Swanson, Harland G. Fox
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Evaluating online health information: beyond readability formulas.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2010
Although understanding health information is important, the texts provided are often difficult to understand. There are formulas to measure readability levels, but there is little understanding of how linguistic structures contribute to these difficulties.
Gondy, Leroy, Stephen, Helmreich, James R, Cowie, Trudi, Miller, Wei, Zheng   +4 more
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Readability Formulas

2016
Alan Bailin, Ann Grafstein
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The Use Of Readability Formulas in Polytrauma

Background: Polytrauma is defined as a condition in which an individual sustains multiple traumatic injuries, often involving multiple organ systems. We aimed to conduct this study because there are no studies in the literature demonstrating the readability of AI models' responses to questions posed by patients about polytrauma.
Şimşek, Salih Denis, Şenöğüt, Can
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Measuring Readability of Some Agricultural Extension Pamphlets using Some Readability Formulas

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2021
Asmaa BakrMohamed, Maram Abdel-Latif Mostafa   +1 more
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