Author: Winant Sidie
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Joseph Edward Melanson
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Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: Army Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Army Library (U.S.)
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Thomas G. Sticht
Publisher:
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Category : Job analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Anthology of research on functional literacy (in particular reading) in relation to job requirements and employment in the USA armed forces - includes graphs, illustrations, references and statistical tables.

Author: Nitin Agarwal
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781536106022
Category : Health literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Physicians have long pledged to adhere to four basic moral principles, a concise framework for the larger field of medical ethics. As is commonly known, those values consist of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. However, in order to advocate for these principles for patients, medical professionals must first ensure patients have appropriate medical resources from which to glean information. This book serves to underscore this concept and advance the field of patient education -- Provided by the publisher.

Author: William H. DuBay
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781419654398
Category : Readability (Literary style)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The purpose of this book is to introduce the research on readability, defined here as reading ease. The first part of the book covers how people read. A series of national literacy surveys show that the average person in the U.S. and most other countries are adults of limited reading skills. For example, the average adult in the U.S. reads at the 9th-grade level, with nearly half reading below that level. The second part of this work covers the efforts made to match texts with readers. The research shows that more readable texts increase comprehension, retention, reading speed, and persistence. Other studies show how factors in both the reader and the text contribute to reading ease. Finally, the work follows the development of the readability formulas and the controversies that surrounded them. George Klare's Readability Ranking Test is appended. An index is included. (Contains 14 figures and 9 tables.).

Author: William Lidwell
Publisher: Rockport Pub
ISBN: 1592535879
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Universal Principles of Design is the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of design.

Author: Horacio Saggion
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031021665
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Thanks to the availability of texts on the Web in recent years, increased knowledge and information have been made available to broader audiences. However, the way in which a text is written—its vocabulary, its syntax—can be difficult to read and understand for many people, especially those with poor literacy, cognitive or linguistic impairment, or those with limited knowledge of the language of the text. Texts containing uncommon words or long and complicated sentences can be difficult to read and understand by people as well as difficult to analyze by machines. Automatic text simplification is the process of transforming a text into another text which, ideally conveying the same message, will be easier to read and understand by a broader audience. The process usually involves the replacement of difficult or unknown phrases with simpler equivalents and the transformation of long and syntactically complex sentences into shorter and less complex ones. Automatic text simplification, a research topic which started 20 years ago, now has taken on a central role in natural language processing research not only because of the interesting challenges it posesses but also because of its social implications. This book presents past and current research in text simplification, exploring key issues including automatic readability assessment, lexical simplification, and syntactic simplification. It also provides a detailed account of machine learning techniques currently used in simplification, describes full systems designed for specific languages and target audiences, and offers available resources for research and development together with text simplification evaluation techniques.

Author: Charles W. Eagles
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. In 1974, when Random House's Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and corruption, the state textbook commission rejected the book, and its action prompted Loewen and Sallis to join others in a federal lawsuit (Loewen v. Turnipseed) challenging the book ban. Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our understanding both of civil rights activism in the movement's last days and of an early controversy in the culture wars that persist today.