A comparison of the readability of synopses and original articles for engineering synopses

Paul B. Mayes

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978, vol. 29, issue 6, 312-313

Abstract: Twenty synopses from Engineering Synopses and their corresponding original articles were compared for ease of reading using one of Coleman's readability formulas. The synopses were found to be significantly more difficult to read at the 2% level.

Date: 1978
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