Abstract
Viewing reading as an act of information processing necessitates portraying the reader as one who is engaged in a complex cognitive interactive process with written text. Smith (1971) proposed a model of the reading process which is an initial attempt to describe this complex interaction between reader and writer. His insightful description of the reading process cogently integrated the rapidly accumulating data from the field of psycholinguistics. Smith maintained that the reader is selective in the information which he processes. This selectivity by the reader is possible because of the redundancies inherent in the English language. The existence of redundancy in a message aids the reader in anticipating or predicting the subsequent text and reduces the amount of visual information he must process to make sense of the message. Thus the premise is that the amount of visual information required by the reader for comprehending the text is directly related to the amount of redundancy in the text and the implicit skill of the reader in utilizing this redundancy to reduce the visual information he must process.
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