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Author: E. A. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Readability (Literary style) Languages : en Pages : 20
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"Inasmuch as the utility of technical manuals is influenced to a marked extent by their reading difficulty or readability, the Automated Readability Index was devised to provide an easy, automated method of collecting data from which textual material can be evaluated in terms of readability. Whereas most readability formulas include separate factors related to (1) word difficulty and (2) sentence difficulty, the Automated Readability Index provides for the mechanical tabulation of the required data on passages as they are typed on a standard typewriter. Impulses from the typewriter activate counters which record the number of letters, words and sentences contained in the passage. From this, the average word length and average sentence length are computed. Appropriate weightings of these factors result in an index reflecting the readability of the passage. This index is in close agreement with other indexes of readability."--Abstract.
Author: E. A. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Readability (Literary style) Languages : en Pages : 20
Book Description
"Inasmuch as the utility of technical manuals is influenced to a marked extent by their reading difficulty or readability, the Automated Readability Index was devised to provide an easy, automated method of collecting data from which textual material can be evaluated in terms of readability. Whereas most readability formulas include separate factors related to (1) word difficulty and (2) sentence difficulty, the Automated Readability Index provides for the mechanical tabulation of the required data on passages as they are typed on a standard typewriter. Impulses from the typewriter activate counters which record the number of letters, words and sentences contained in the passage. From this, the average word length and average sentence length are computed. Appropriate weightings of these factors result in an index reflecting the readability of the passage. This index is in close agreement with other indexes of readability."--Abstract.
Author: Kent H. Huff Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 15
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Ascertaining the readability of technical manuals is an important step toward optimizing the effectiveness of training materials. Technical writers in the Air Force apply the Fog Count to written documents to obtain estimates of readability. However, the Fog Count requires manual computation which becomes a tedious, boring, and time-consuming task. On the other hand, the Automated Readability Index (ARI) offers a means of simplifying the collection of readability data. The study was designed to compare the inter- and intra-typist reliability of the ARI with the reliability of Fog Count, to establish an ARI baseline data pool, and to provide a set of instructions for users of the ARI. (Author).
Author: Danielle S. McNamara Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139867091 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 293
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Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix describes this computational tool, as well as the wide range of language and discourse measures it provides. Part I of the book focuses on the theoretical perspectives that led to the development of Coh-Metrix, its measures, and empirical work that has been conducted using this approach. Part II shifts to the practical arena, describing how to use Coh-Metrix and how to analyze, interpret, and describe results. Coh-Metrix opens the door to a new paradigm of research that coordinates studies of language, corpus analysis, computational linguistics, education, and cognitive science. This tool empowers anyone with an interest in text to pursue a wide array of previously unanswerable research questions.
Author: J. Peter Kincaid Publisher: ISBN: Category : Readability (Literary style) Languages : en Pages : 49
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Three readability formulas were recalculated to be more suitable for Navy use. The three formulas are the Automated Readability Index (ARI), Fog Count, and Flesch Reading Ease Formula. They were derived from test results of 531 Navy enlisted personnel enrolled in four technical training schools. Personnel were tested for their reading comprehension level according to the comprehension section of the Gates-McGinitie reading test. At the same time, they were tested for their comprehension of 18 passages taken from Rate Training Manuals. Scores on the reading test and training material passages allowed the calculation of the grade level of the passages. This scaled reading grade level is based on Navy personnel reading Navy training material and comprehending it.
Author: E. A. Smith
Author: E. A. Smith
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Author: Patricia Tanner Anderson
Author: Robert Derald Hartley
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Author: Kent H. Huff
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Author: Danielle S. McNamara
Author: J. Peter Kincaid
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