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The Measurement of Redundancy and Its Effects in Science Communication.
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Micklos, David; Bishop, Walton – 1982
A study was conducted to determine if increasing the redundancy of sections in scientific articles where typical readers became bored or confused would have a desirable effect on other readers. Undergraduate journalism students applied R. F. Carter's signalled stopping technique to two different science articles by indicating points where they…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)