Review of Readability

Abstract

Reviews the book, "Readability," by Edgar Dale (1949). The book is a collection of five articles by five research specialists which originally appeared in the journal Elementary English from January to May 1949. Each article concerns itself with a particular segment of the complex problem of making writing readable, and each is concise, critical, and informative. To the reviewer, a most impressive thing about these articles is the thorough analysis they make of areas where current readability knowledge is thin. Such publications as this one, it seems to the reviewer, augur well for the continued progress of readability research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)