Reading Ease of Bilingual Annual Reports

By J. Courtis, S. Hassan. 2002

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Lexical density and readability: A case study of English Textbooks (2013, methodology): “The statistics obtained from the above methods are compared with Flesch’s (1948) Reading Ease Scale which measures sentence length and the number of syllables per 100-word passages (Courtis & Hassan, 2002).”
A conceptual framework of impression management: new insights from psychology, sociology and critical perspectives (2011, background): “Corporate report readers have been profiled in terms of their sophistication (sophisticated and unsophisticated) and their information acquisition strategies (goal directed/purposeful and incidental/random) (Courtis, 2000, p.255– 58; Courtis and Hassan, 2002, p.398–99).”
Corporate Risk Reporting (2008, background): “Second, Crombie and Samujh (1999) present a case of an executive who did focus on problems in his letter to shareholders. The problems discussed were, however, relatively minor and seemingly intended to distract attention from more serious issues, thereby likely causing longer term credibility probl”
The readability of integrated reports (2017, background): “…of annual reports from an impression management theory point of view (Adelberg, 1979; Clatworthy & Jones, 2001; Courtis, 1986, 1995, 1998; Courtis & Hassan, 2002; Eugene Baker III & Kare, 1992; Jones, 1988, 1996; Lehavy et al., 2011; Li, 2008; Parker, 1982; Rutherford, 2002; Smith &…”