IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jun 1992

Could you be clearer? An examination of the multiple perspectives of clarity

R.E. Dulek

Abstract

The author examines three of the most important factors that affect readers' and writers' perceptions of clarity: precision, document accessibility, and corporate language context. Each factor is defined and examined in terms of its influence on clarity. The result is a better understanding of the multiple factors that need to be considered before one passes judgment on a document's clarity.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>

Journal
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published
1992-06-01
DOI
10.1109/47.144867
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Open Access
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Topics
affect and writing
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