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Download full textBruce, Bertram; And Others – 1981
The failure of readability formulas can be attributed to three weaknesses in the formulas. First, they ignore or violate current knowledge about the reading process. Most formulas affect only sentence length and word difficulty while ignoring factors that influence text comprehensibility, such as cohesion, the number of inferences required, the…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Readability
