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The Principles of Readability.

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The Principles of Readability gives a brief introduction to the literacy studies in the U.S. and the research on readability and the readability formulas.
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The Principles of Readability gives a brief introduction to the literacy studies in the U.S. and the research on readability and the readability formulas.

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Estimating the Helpfulness and Economic Impact of Product Reviews: Mining Text and Reviewer Characteristics

TL;DR: This paper is the first study that integrates econometric, text mining, and predictive modeling techniques toward a more complete analysis of the information captured by user-generated online reviews in order to estimate their helpfulness and economic impact.
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Estimating the Helpfulness and Economic Impact of Product Reviews: Mining Text and Reviewer Characteristics

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of reviews on economic outcomes like product sales and how different factors affect social outcomes such as their perceived usefulness was examined, and it was shown that the extent of subjectivity, informativeness, readability, and linguistic correctness in reviews matters in influencing sales and perceived usefulness.
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Anxious or Angry? Effects of Discrete Emotions on the Perceived Helpfulness of Online Reviews

TL;DR: The effects of emotions embedded in a seller review on its perceived helpfulness to readers are explored and the importance of examining discrete emotions in online word-of-mouth is demonstrated.
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Anxious or angry? effects of discrete emotions on the perceived helpfulness of online reviews

TL;DR: This article explored the effects of emotions embedded in a seller review on its perceived helpfulness to readers and found that over and above a well-known negativity bias, the impact of discrete emotions in a review will vary, and that one source of this variance is reader perceptions of reviewers' cognitive effort.
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Evaluating content quality and helpfulness of online product reviews: The interplay of review helpfulness vs. review content

TL;DR: It was found that review readability had a greater effect on the helpfulness ratio of a review than its length; in addition, extremely helpful reviews received a higher score than those considered less helpful.
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Mind in society

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Cohesion in English

TL;DR: This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences, reference from one to the other, repetition of word meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are considered.