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Holland, V. Melissa – 1981
Features are discussed that are critical to the comprehension of texts and that readability formulas cannot handle. The critique and alternative analyses are confined to public and institutional documents and are based on research in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. Two types of comprehensibility complications are examined, those…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Government Publications, Language Research, Language Usage
