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- Title
Bridges or Barriers: Analysis of Logodiversity in College Biology Textbooks.
- Authors
Burton, Rebecca S.
- Abstract
When selecting a textbook, college instructors must weigh a variety of factors. One is whether the text is written at a level that is accessible to one's students. An important factor in this is how many technical words are used. I developed an index to calculate logodiversity, a term I coined that reflects the number of technical words and the usage frequency of those words. The college-level animal behavior textbooks I examined varied greatly in their logodiversity. A fairly reliable substitute for the more time-consuming calculation of logodiversity is the ratio of pages in the glossary to the number of pages in the text as a whole.
- Subjects
BIOLOGY textbooks; LIFE sciences; TEXTBOOK readability; READABILITY (Literary style); JARGON (Terminology); COLLEGE teachers
- Publication
Bioscene, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1539-2422
- Publication type
Article