IntroductionReadability entails linguistic characteristics of texts that are capable of influencing how a reader will successfully read and comprehend written information. There is a difference between readability and legibility. Legibility involves the actual ease through which a text can be read and understood. The readability level of a given text is a pointer towards the textual difficulty level of a text and the level of suitability of the text to the people of a given age or grade level who read it. For a given text, it is always fixed and does not change based on reader characteristics (
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