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Original Articles

Some Observations on Producing and Measuring Readable Writing

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Pages 164-174 | Received 12 Jan 1980, Published online: 09 Jul 2006
 

Abstract

This paper describes (i) how we rewrote a piece of technical text to make it easier to understand, and (ii) how we attempted to measure our success at this task.

The purpose of the paper is to chart the difficulties in which we found ourselves and to make the task easier for others who may wish to follow our path.

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