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Readability of Community College Textbooks and the Reading Ability of the Students Who Use Them

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Cline, Terry A. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1973

Descriptors: College Instruction, Community Colleges, Readability, Reading Ability

A Review of Research in Revising Instructional Text.

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Sawyer, Mary H. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991

Reviews research in revising instructional text by examining multidisciplinary research in readability, text structure, text interestingness, expert revisers' strategies, and readers' comprehension strategies. Finds that much of this research is limited by a simplistic view of reading, the use of experimentally contrived texts and contexts, and a…

Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Literature Reviews, Readability, Reading Comprehension