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O'Hear, Michael F.; Ramsey, Richard N. – 1990
A study was conducted to determine whether there was any match between student perception of reading ease and the readability of three main line, first-year college composition texts (Daugherty; Kinneavy, McCleary, and Nakadate; Lauer, Montague, Lunsford, and Emig) as determined by five commonly used readability formulas. Two chapters (on…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Readability
