Readability and Responsibility.

Abstract

Readability has been variously defined as a text's legibility, power to interest, ease of understanding or any combination of these factors. Gray and Leary (1935) identified as many as 288 characteristics affecting readability, 20of which werethoughtto be significant, classified in four broad categories: format, general features of organization, style of expression and presentation, and content. The goal of readability research is to match reader and text. Prior to