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Kent, Thomas L. – 1980
Writers and writing teachers should be wary of depending on readability indexes as indicators of the difficulty of written messages. The Gunning Fog Index and the Damerst Clear Index, two readability formulas, were used to determine the readability of "A Statement of Editorial Policy" and two abstracts appearing in an issue of…
Descriptors: Audiences, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research
