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Two-ladder classification of readability: easy-difficult and interesting-dull parameters

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The University of Illinois readability survey organizes readability measurement around two principal parameters. The easy-difficult ladder covers vocabulary difficulty, word length, sentence length and complexity, and parts-of-speech difficulty; the interesting-dull ladder covers references to people, verb-adjective ratios, image-bearing and human-interest words, and early-learned words and localisms. The survey reports that "Readability measures, for the most part, classify writing on two principal parameters", making this the organizing framework of the reviewed literature.

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  • Two-ladder classification of readability: easy-difficult and interesting-dull parameters: The University of Illinois readability survey organizes readability measurement around two principal parameters. The easy-difficult ladder covers vocabulary difficulty, word length, sentence length and complexity, and parts-of-speech difficulty; the interesting-dull ladder covers references to people, verb-adjective ratios, image-bearing and human-interest words, and early-learned words and localisms. The survey reports that "Readability measures, for the most part, classify writing on two principal parameters", making this the organizing framework of the reviewed literature. (Audio-Visual Communication Review et al. (1955))

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  • Audio-Visual Communication Review, digest items abstracted by E. G. Sherburne, Jr. and Edmund Faison. (1955). Audio-Visual Communication Review. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=audio-visual+communication+review
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title Two-ladder classification of readability: easy-difficult and interesting-dull parameters
description The University of Illinois readability survey organizes readability measurement around two principal parameters.
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