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Subjective Readability Experiments on Topically Linked Expository Paragraphs and Their Variants.
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Vande Kopple, William J. – 1982
Three experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that a paragraph composed of sentences with identical or closely related topics would be easier to read than one whose sentence topics were only remotely related. The first experiment involved subjective judgments by 131 high school students on the readability of two paragraphs identical in…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Experiments on the Readability of Natural Expository Paragraphs with Identical or Related Sentence Topics.
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Vande Kopple, William J. – 1981
To test the hypothesis that paragraphs composed of sentences with identical or closely related topics (the grammatical subject and its adjuncts) would be easier to read than a paragraph whose sentence topics were only remotely related, two experiments on the readability of paragraphs were conducted. The first experiment involved subjective…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Connected Discourse