Table of Contents

• SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION
  • Guidelines for readability
  • The readability formulas
  • Are the readability formulas a problem?
  • What is readability?
  • Content
• THE ADULT LITERARY STUDIES
  • Grading the reading skills of students
  • Grading Adult readers
  • U.S. military literacy surveys - reading on the job
  • U.S. civilian literacy surveys
  • Challenges for technical communicators
• THE CLASSIC READABILITY STUDIES
  • L.A. Sherman and the statistical analysis of literature
  • Vocabulary-frequency lists
  • The classic readability formulas
• THE NEW READABILITY STUDIES
  • A community of scholars
  • The cloze test
  • Reading ability, prior knowledge, interest, and motivation
  • Reading efficiency
  • The measurement of content
  • Text leveling
  • Producing and transforming text
  • New readability formulas
  • Formula applications
  • Using the formulas
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
• BIOSKETCH