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Abbass, Mazin – 1976
The study analyzes, for readability and difficulty, the language of 50 commonly used application forms. The forms were compared with respect to length, readability, t-unit density, and word-length variables. Forms were also compared against two word-frequency lists. Results show that many of the words appearing often on forms do not appear on the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Language Research, Readability, Readability Formulas
