Rating the major computing periodicals on readability
Communications of the ACM
Documenting information systems for management: a key to maintaining user satisfaction
Information and Management
The measurement of user information satisfaction
Communications of the ACM
Structured writing - - an approach to the documentation of computer software
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
Human Error in Computer Systems
Human Error in Computer Systems
Data Processing Documentation: Standards, Procedures and Applications
Data Processing Documentation: Standards, Procedures and Applications
IBM system/38—an IBM usability experience
CHI '82 Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enriching textbooks through data mining
Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Identifying enrichment candidates in textbooks
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Empowering authors to diagnose comprehension burden in textbooks
Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
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Poorly written documentation adversely affects the acquisition, development, use, maintenance, management and control of application software. Readability formulas, comprised of certain linguistic variables, provide rough estimates of the potential difficulty of reading material. This paper illustrates the application of well-known readability formulas in a readability assessment of the 1985 ANSI COBOL Standard. The paper summarizes certain limitations of readability formulas and concludes with suggestions concerning the use of readability formulas in the evaluation of computer-related material.