Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fAGGHA007120; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:17:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:17:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20011116110601.01c09710@postoffice.brown.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Christina Zarcadoolas <Christina_Zarcadoolas@brown.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:3458] Re: Readability formulas X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Status: O Content-Length: 881 Lines: 25 At 10:59 AM 11/16/01 -0500, you wrote: >At 09:50 AM 11/16/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Sorry, >The quote I intended as a followup to Mark H's posting - didn't seem to >post : I'll try again and forgive me. cz > "The limitation of judging readability solely through surface structure elements is shown vividly by Gordon in his analysis of Plato's Parmenides (1980). Using two popular readability formulas ( Dale-Chall 1948 and Fry 1968) Gordon found that passages from the Plato work were falling between 4th and 6th grade reading levels. Gordon's warning about using criteria such as number of words, length and complexity of sentences and syllables, to judge readability is convincing and yet today, two decades later, goes undeeded ( Gordon 1980) Gordon, Robert M. "The readability of Unreadable Texts." In English Journal. March 1980, Vol. 89, No., 3, pp. 60-61.
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