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A Partial Index of Text Complexity Involving the Lexical Analysis of Rhetorical Collectives. IET Text-Processing Paper 4.
Whalley, Peter – 1980
An alternative to the traditional surface measures of text complexity is put forward. The background to the study is an attempt to provide a useful analysis of educational courses being prepared on a text-processor system. The analysis is primarily concerned with one aspect of cohesion in text, the use of rhetorical connectives or items of…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Paragraph Composition, Statistical Analysis