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Peer reviewedWells, Barron; Spinks, Nelda – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1991
Investigates readability levels of correspondence sent out by Gulf Coast area business offices. Finds that a large majority of the correspondence sent out from the offices under study is written at too high a reading level. Finds also that the greatest problem lies in syllable intensity--the use of "big" words where everyday words would have…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Research, Higher Education, Letters (Correspondence)
Download full textSmith, Dean R.; And Others – 1989
A three-part correlational study examined the explanatory power of the Lexile theory of reading comprehension, which was based on the semantic and syntactic components of prose. Correlations were performed between the item difficulties of nine nationally normed reading comprehension tests and computer generated difficulties which were reported in…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level
