%0 Journal Article %1 jandreau__1992__phrase-spaced_formats %A Jandreau, Steven %A Bever, Thomas %D 1992 %I American Psychological Association Inc. %J Journal of Applied Psychology %K _jerrobs-issue:space legibility space typography %N 2 %P 143--146 %T Phrase-Spaced Formats Improve Comprehension in Average Readers %V 77 %X College readers read and answered questions on 12 short essays. Essays formatted so that points between phrases had fractional extra space added to them were comprehended better than normally formatted text. These improvements were specific to average readers. Practically, the results justify classroom research on the benefits of phrase-sensitive formatting; theoretically, the results add to existing evidence that poor to average readers specifically lack perceptual strategies for grouping word sequences into phrases.

@article{jandreau__1992__phrase-spaced_formats, abstract = {College readers read and answered questions on 12 short essays. Essays formatted so that points between phrases had fractional extra space added to them were comprehended better than normally formatted text. These improvements were specific to average readers. Practically, the results justify classroom research on the benefits of phrase-sensitive formatting; theoretically, the results add to existing evidence that poor to average readers specifically lack perceptual strategies for grouping word sequences into phrases.}, added-at = {2017-08-12T06:28:48.000+0200}, author = {Jandreau, Steven and Bever, Thomas}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b6988876b093077f226e3436dde12e48/dirk-rathje}, description = {Phrase-Spaced Formats Improve Comprehension in Average Readers — University of Arizona}, interhash = {33d5a3c0ba4cac2a50a48ed275ee181f}, intrahash = {b6988876b093077f226e3436dde12e48}, issn = {0021-9010}, journal = {Journal of Applied Psychology}, keywords = {_jerrobs-issue:space legibility space typography}, month = {4}, number = 2, pages = {143--146}, publisher = {American Psychological Association Inc.}, timestamp = {2017-08-12T06:35:41.000+0200}, title = {Phrase-Spaced Formats Improve Comprehension in Average Readers}, volume = 77, year = 1992 }