Abstract:
Trade periodicals serve as important sources of information for industry personnel and are valuable as supplemental reading in college courses. Therefore, it is critical that college students and graduates have reading skills that match or exceed the readability levels of trade periodicals. This article reports that the average readability of feature articles in major trade periodicals was similar to the readability of first-year level college textbooks and higher than the average reading skill level of many students entering an associate degree college.
Keywords:
readability, feature articles, trade periodicals
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