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Peer reviewedRygiel, Mary Ann – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1982
Examines readability formulas and examples of their misuse. Analyzes an essay by George Orwell which was given a grade 10 readability level by one formula and discusses characteristics of Orwell's style that refute the accuracy of formula rating. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Material Selection
Fry, Edward – 1989
A new readability formula is designed to work on passages that are 40 to 99 words long, while existing readability formulas require a passage of 300 words or longer. The new formula requires the passage to have at least three sentences and is reliable for the fourth through the twelfth grades. (Four figures which demonstrate the use of the formula…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Intermediate Grades, Readability
Download full textJones, Karen H. – 1993
A study examined 58 home economics education textbooks in terms of reading difficulty, writing style, and interest level for special population learners. The objective was to identify texts, using six different readability formulas that were significantly more difficult and provided educational obstacles to special populations in their preparation…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Home Economics, Readability, Readability Formulas
Peer reviewedDanielson, Wayne A.; Lasorsa, Dominic L. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Investigates whether novelistic prose can be dated by considering marked stylistic changes that occurred over the past 240 years. Finds a positive correlation between publication date and stylistic markers of sentence length, word length, rare punctuation, and word shortening or informality. Argues that this process can form the basis for new…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Correlation, Eighteenth Century Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
