Rudolf Flesch
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1911 – 1986
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Who was Rudolf Flesch?
Rudolf Flesch was an Austrian-born naturalised American author, and also a readability expert and writing consultant who was a vigorous proponent of plain English in the United States. He created the Flesch Reading Ease test and was co-creator of the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. Flesch advocated use of phonics rather than sight reading, to enable students to sound out unfamiliar words.
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- Born
- May 8, 1911
Vienna - Also known as
- Rudolf Franz Flesch
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Columbia University
- Teachers College, Columbia University
- Died
- Oct 5, 1986
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on July 23, 2013
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