ERIC Number: EJ1393871
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Oct
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-2816
EISSN: EISSN-1541-3780
A Study of Lexical Repetition and the Comprehensibility of Single-Sourced Technical Documents
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, v53 n4 p335-355 Oct 2023
This study investigated the extent to which lexical repetition in English passages developed in a content management system appeared to affect reading comprehension. Participants were 65 graduate students at a Midwestern public university, all of whom were native English readers. Instruments were two passages adjusted to maximize or minimize internal lexical repetition. Readers rated repetitive texts as significantly more cohesive than nonrepetitive texts, although repetition did not significantly affect the accuracy of task-based responses. Participants named lexical cues that had been repeated but also named nonrepeated, memorable cues, suggesting possible future research into managed content, lexical memorableness, and reader comprehension.
Descriptors: Repetition, English, Reading Comprehension, Technical Writing, Graduate Students, Native Speakers, Cues, Connected Discourse, Rhetoric
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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