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Download full textBurton, Rebecca S. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2011
When selecting a textbook, college instructors must weigh a variety of factors. One is whether the text is written at a level that is accessible to one's students. An important factor in this is how many technical words are used. I developed an index to calculate logodiversity, a term I coined that reflects the number of technical words and the…
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