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Readability and Patient Education

Readability and Patient Education

This learning object will teach strategies for creating readable education documents. The user will learn design practices, writing guidelines and how to calculate reading levels.
Keywords:
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Material Type:
Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:
January 15, 2009
Date Modified in MERLOT:
October 28, 2022
Authors:
Submitter:
Eileen Horn
Primary Audience:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:
Website, Flash
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
Cost Involved:
No
Source Code Available:
No
Creative Commons:
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

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Kevin Gulliver
Kevin Gulliver (Faculty)
16 years ago
This tutorial is engaging and practical. It is a great resource for teaching practical application of best practices for the development of patient teaching materials.

Technical Remarks:

Provides opportunities for students to practice the use of grade level estimations and provides examples of best practices for text and layout of teaching materials.
Time spent reviewing site: 20 minutes