Economical writing (or, “Think Hemingway”)

Marroquín, Andrés; Cole, Julio H.

doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1522-1

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“…Accordingly, the academic texts unavoidably include a fairly large number of technical terms, which are most probably long words and less readable to non-academics or academics not in the specific field. As a result, the academic texts are less readable or very difficult to read, especially to the readers outside the field, though many writing experts and researchers such as Zinsser (2006), Okulicz-Kozaryn (2013 and Marroquín and Cole (2015) suggest that academic writing should be readable and economical.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Readability and citations in information science: evidence from abstracts and articles of four journals (2003–2012)

Lei

Song

2016

Scientometrics

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The present study analysed the readability of abstracts and full texts of the articles published in four journals of information science from 2003 to 2012. The results showed that the abstracts are very difficult to read in terms of readability indices such as FRE and SMOG. The results also showed that some of the readabilities of the abstracts and full texts changed in the examined decade, though the effect sizes were minuscule. Meanwhile, the readability scores were not significantly correlated with the number of citations. Although the readability issue of an academic text is secondary to the impact of the study, it is not suggested that the academic writers not pay any attention to the readability issue. On the contrary, it would be better if the technical texts be more readable and clearer after the knowledge or information is accurately and academically conveyed.

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confidence: 99%

“…Many writing experts advise that, in order to achieve high readability of a text, brevity and conciseness should be significant for the quality of writing (e.g. Marroquín and Cole 2015;Zinsser 2006). In addition, readability is also important for knowledge development and information communication (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%