Provides a list of fourteen layout ideas intended to improve the appeal of the high school newspaper. (RB)

The regulations that emerge from governmental departments have been framed in legal language by lawyers to withstand onslaught in case by case determinations. From a judicial context, lawyers may rightfully contend that the concepts of the law are bound up in legal terms, and therefore the technical language of the profession should remain…

This study was designed to examine the readability levels of the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade textbooks of four of the most recent language arts textbook series. Readability scores were obtained for each textbook as a whole, for each chapter in each textbook, and for presentation of content and student exercises material within each textbook.…

Articles submitted to newspapers by 100 agents of the North Carolina Agricultural Service were studied to determine the readability or reading ease of the articles, and to determine the extent to which certain selected factors were associated with reading ease scores. Five of each of the respondents' newspaper articles were randomly selected, and…

Twenty short versions of articles from Engineering Synopses and the corresponding original articles were compared for ease of reading. The synopses were found to be significantly more difficult to read. (Author/MBR)

Readability levels of 30 items from Child Development Abstracts and 30 passages from their corresponding journal articles were compared by a CAL SNOBOL computer program referenced to a cloze criterion. Results supported the hypothesis that abstracts were more difficult to read than their source documents. (Author)

Examination of 13 college textbooks on education of the gifted and talented revealed a wide range of difficulty and interest levels. A wide variety of subject topics was found, with little agreement among authors concerning appropriate subject matter. Some important topics, such as career educational planning, received surprisingly little…

Special education elementary students (N=271) were tested on three reading passages; six readability formulas were applied to the passages. Rank orderings of the passages based on readability formulas failed to agree with those based on students' actual performance. Implications for measuring students' reading proficiency and for selecting…

Lists 44 samples with readability gaJrade levels as computed by the formulas of Dale-Chall, Fry, and McCJlaughlin. Table and bibliogaJraphy. (RW)

Eighteen introductory texts in mental retardation (MR) were analyzed for reading ease and human interest level (percentage of personal words and sentences). Data were compared to survey texts in psychology, reading, and exceptional student education. Introductory MR texts were generally easiest to read and most interesting. (CL)

Discusses 10 rules of thumb for writing educational research reports that are concise and accessible. The principles include writing in terms of people, emphasizing the positive, editing for simplicity, and breaking any of the previously discussed rules when necessary. (HTH)

Examines health care information given to patients and concludes that most of the material is too difficult for patients to read easily. (AEA)