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Peer reviewedCourtis, John K. – Journal of Business Communication, 1987
Investigates the effectiveness of the prose communication in contemporary corporate annual reports. Indicates that a sample of 65 Canadian annual reports for 1984 were classified as "difficult" to "very difficult" and beyond the fluent comprehension ease of 92 percent of the adult population and 56 percent of the investor…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business English, Communication Problems, Communication Research
