The Principles of Readability.

By William H. DuBay. 2004

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Annual report readability and corporate agency costs (2018, unknown): “Research into the importance of readability has been conducted in areas including the military, 05, PR like to Annual unting medicine and law (Bonsall and Miller, 2017; DuBay, 2004).”
Processing Fluency and Investors’ Reactions to Disclosure Readability (2012, unknown): “…the SEC voted unanimously to amend the Investment Advisers Act to require plain English in 1 In general, definitions of “readability” in prior literature are imprecise, given that the concept of readability has evolved primarily through the evaluation of grade-school textbooks (see Dubay 2004).”
Publishing while Female. Are women held to higher standards? Evidence from peer review. (2017, methodology): “2 Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG and Dale-Chall.2 Developed primarily for adults and tested on technical documents (see DuBay, 2004).2 Used in research, particularly in finance and political science (see Loughran and Mcdonald, 2016; Benoit et al., 2017).2 Validated against…”
Estimating the Helpfulness and Economic Impact of Product Reviews: Mining Text and Reviewer Characteristics (2011, background): “(See [ 48 ] for detailed description on how to compute each of these metrics.) Based on research in readability, these metrics are useful metrics for measuring how easy is for a user to read a review.”
How Readability Shapes Social Media Engagement (2018, background): “The measurement of readability often consists of two variables: word complexity and syntactic complexity (see DuBay, 2004 for a review).”
A Plain English Measure of Financial Reporting Readability (2017, background): “History of Readability, plain English, and the SEC Research over the past century documents the importance of readability in contexts as wideranging as the military, healthcare, and the law (DuBay, 2004).”
Assessing Readability of Patient Education Materials: Current Role in Orthopaedics (2010, methodology): “For a frustration-free reading, it is recommended the Cloze score of the patient education material should be at least 50% [19].”
Evaluating content quality and helpfulness of online product reviews: The interplay of review helpfulness vs. review content (2012, background): “In general terms, the concept of readability describes the effort and the educational level required for a person to understand and comprehend a piece of text (DuBay 2004, Zakaluk and Samuels 1988).”
Coh-Metrix: Capturing Linguistic Features of Cohesion (2010, background): “By the 1980s, over 200 readability measures had been developed, with over a 1,000 supporting studies (Chall & Dale, 1995; Dubay, 2004).”