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Brown, Francis J. – 1978
The Gunning Fog Index of readability indicates both the average length of words and the difficult words (three or more syllables) in written material. This document describes a business communication course at Wayne State University in which students calculate the Gunning Fog Index of two of their writing assignments with the aid of the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs
Download full textSpiegel, Glenn; Campbell, John J. – 1985
The Flesch readability index yields meaningful information about the responses of readers to texts. Because the formula is so simple, a group of English teachers wrote a program in BASIC that would count some obvious surface features of a text and calculate Flesch scores. Among the programing problems encountered were counting words (taking into…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of writing instruction on reading comprehension and story writing ability; (2) eighth grade remedial students' concepts about reading and writing; (3) the effect of a…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
