Essays on Readability

Reading is a process through which the reader tries to gain knowledge by deriving meaning from printed or written texts. During reading, the reader tries to retrieve information and understand the meaning of the text. This is called readability. For casual readers, the effort that goes into retrieving information and understanding meaning is lesser than an intense reader. Having a prior knowledge of a subject, or its structure, makes readability easier. When information is provided on a new subject in a way that is difficult to understand, the readability becomes hard. During the process of reading, the person connects ...

Academic discourse and business writing standards require a combination of clear readability and a high degree of communication skills. The primary responsibility of the writer is to present information in a concise and accurate manner. Computer science papers have a distinctly technical aspect inherent within the subject matter. Frequently there will be dense quantitative data included, which is the main point of the paper. However, this in no way excuses the writer from presenting research and ideas in a comprehensible manner. To reach the intended audience effectively, standards of excellence in writing include specific objectives of readability so that ...

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The readability of a given text is dependent on many factors, among which include the number of words in a sentence and the length of the words which is indicated by the syllables in the sentence. It is alleged that local and national newspapers have a readability level of the fifth grade. This experimental project seeks to determine the veracity of these claims using the Gwinnett Daily Post, a local newspaper that circulates in Georgia. The sample for the treatments includes six articles from which the first five sentences will be chosen. The word and syllable count for the ...

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Abstract Mental health issues are mostly related to the problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, mood disorder, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders. They may develop as a result of several factors such as family factors, biological factors, and social factors. Patients of these disorders and their family members require an elevated level of education to deal with these problems. Therefore, it is important to improve the patient education materials that would help in conveying as much essential information to the patients and their family members as possible. In this regard, patients’ education materials can ...

Amazon.com 2015 Annual Report

The Amazon.com 2015 Annual Report was released in April 2015. This report effectively tells the story about Amazon. The report motivates the reader to read the whole report by noting the exciting accomplishments the company has made in 2015. For instance, opening with the fact that the company is the first company to amass $ 100 billion in annual sales, motivates a reader to discover how this accomplishment was reached (Amazon, 2016). The report also discusses the essential aspects of the company’s business such as the corporate culture, relationships with suppliers, customers and other stakeholders in the market. The ...

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is used by designers for the presentation of documents written in the markup language like HTML, XML, and XHTML. Before the inception of CSS, designers had a difficult time in organizing web contents that would appeal to users ("Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers", 2010). With the use of CSS, web developers can choose how and where contents are displayed on the website. It has given web designers the capabilities to manage visual style and user interfaces of web pages. The layouts, color combinations, spacing among other design elements have an impact ...

Logic of enquiry

In relation to the logic of enquiry, it has been presented in a manner that is coherent, as well as, comprehensive just as would be expected. The enquiry in the article has been instrumental in characterizing the staff according to their roles and also making key assumptions that generally dictates the impacts and also ways that an organization can actually implement plans for purposes of turning the assumptions made into reality. However, a weakness of the enquiry logic used is that it has not completely put into perspective both the quantitative and also the qualitative measures regarding the disadvantaged ...

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Positives Makes use of a graph to represent information Labels each part of the graph, which makes it easier to understand the message being portrayed. Negatives The information is not clear. Rather, it is blurred Inappropriate titling; some text is written on top of the other, which makes visibility as issue Slide 2 Positives

Uses graphics and thus elicits a greater understanding of the underlying message

Explains each graphic in a concise manner Appropriate use of color schemes Good titling; it is precise and more directing Negatives

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Positives

Good readability attributes

Negatives

Excessive detailed; cannot differentiated from a speech or an essay

Undesirable use of graphics Has an inappropriate title. The title has been structured as a question, which should not be the case ...

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1. Background The arrival of new technologies as helped improve many aspects of life. For example, License Plate Recognition is a modern technology that has helped improve mobility and safety in transportation (Rashid, Aibinu, Rahman, Suhaimi and Yunis, 2012). Many car parks have resulted to the use of technology to help in the logistics of operating a car park. Rashid et al., (2012) argue that automatic parking systems are progressive because in addition to improving logistics, they also increase the convenience of public parking, eliminate the hassles of fee collection and also enhance the security, especially when the car ...

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Brief Analysis of Restaurants In order to better understand the goal of menu development, it becomes necessary to examine two restaurants operating within Canada. The two restaurants that are in need of examining are Boralia and Temple Mildred’s Kitchen that are located in Toronto. Both restaurants have similar features. Specifically, they both propose authentic Canadian cuisine and have a long history. Also, each of them proposes casual dining experience to their clients. They are particularly popular and highly rated establishments in Toronto. Moreover, both facilities propose unique experience in dining appealing to consumers that want to sit down ...