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Clarity and readability of written texts In commercial advertising designs
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The concept of clarity and readability of the written texts is an important goal in order to convey the communication idea to the receiver easily; the written texts have special significance because it is the most effective way to fulfill this idea as well as to achieve the aesthetic dimension of the written material, and clarity in the written texts is a prerequisite for reading, and readability is the speed of the optical reading of the written form, as the letters design plays a key role in facilitating the readability of the texts, and thus, it is necessitated to take care of these texts and studied them thoroughly in terms of shape for easy to read, and thus to understand the implications of the texts.
For that reason, the researchers have identified the problem of their research the following question?:
Are the clarity and readability fulfilled in the commercials designs
The importance of the current research is shown in enriching the cognitive side of the clarity and readability for those who involved in the design field in commercials as well as opening scientific horizons towards the development of ideas presented in commercials designs.
As for the objective of this research, it lies in the detection of the clarity and readability concept of the commercials designs.
The research limits of the commercials included the physical and objective limits as well as the spatial limits of Arab commercial ads and time limits in 2009, and that what was included in the first chapter.
The second chapter covers the theoretical scope which included (the concept of clarity, readability and the spatial organizing variables of the written texts and formal elements in the commercials).
The third chapter is devoted to the research procedure, where the researchers followed the descriptive content as a method to analyze the content for the purpose of monitoring the phenomena.
The unit of analysis is identified for the reason that it bears an integrated communication idea in which ideas can be elicited through the analysis and thus 24 units were formed as samples of the research community in which (3) samples have been selected using the non-probabilistic intentionality manner of the total community.
The researchers have reached in the fourth chapter to scientific findings and conclusions in which objectives set were achieved. These results include the following
1.The reading clarity in terms of implementation, use, alignment, spacing, and choosing of letters were not suitable due to the decrease in font size compared to the size of the advertisement in the advertising texts as in the sample (1)
2.The written texts are a design necessity because it is complementary to the images to interpret and explain them because the advertisement needs precision to be interpreted and to show its design idea content, as in the sample (1), (3)
3.The written texts are an influential factor in achieving clarity and readability and the ability to absorb the formal employment as in the sample (2)
4.Spacing between lines and char
acters in the written texts were not carefully considered which leads to lack of readability and clarity as in the samples (1), (3).

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Publication Date
Mon Jun 01 2015
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Languages (jcl)
The Place of Reading Comprehension in Second Language Acquisition
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The present study aims to show the importance of ESL reading ability in acquiring English as a second language. The study involves 92 college students (males and females) from the Department of English at Nizwa College of Applied Sciences, Sultanate of Oman. They represent two groups, the foundation year students and the first year English majors. A number of tests were used to measure students’ overall proficiency in English as well as their reading ability (i.e., the ability to contribute to the main idea of the text, scanning, skimming, to derive word meanings from context, to use a dictionary to find meanings, definitions, to identify prefixes, antonyms and synonyms). Students’ ability to read was correlated to their proficiency

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Publication Date
Mon Jan 02 2017
Journal Name
Al-academy
Implementation of Sound Effects in the Iraqi Children’s Theatre
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Sound effects are considered to be a key element in children’s theatre, for it relays the context and amplifies its understandability, acceptability and its impact on the audience, so it’s a fundamental method in portraying the characters within the idea or the story, to produce the title and content with completeness in its relations that are associated with the rest of the fundamental elements represented in lighting, costumes, dialogue, decoration, etc. And this research included a set of subjects that are related to implementing the sound effects used in the Iraqi children’s theatre plays, chapter one included the problem and the need for studying this subject, as well as its importance and aim, and specifying the basic phrases

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Publication Date
Thu Dec 28 2023
Journal Name
Al–bahith Al–a'alami
News Processing of Corruption Issues in Iraq Satellite Channels
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The core idea of this study revolves around the news coverage by Iraqi satellite channels regarding corruption issues and their implications on the public's perception of the political process. The researcher designed a content analysis form encompassing both primary and sub-categories of news bulletins from the channels, Dijlah and Al-Itijah, spanning from 01/06/2021 to 31/08/2021, using a comprehensive enumeration method. The chosen timeframe preceded the parliamentary elections held in October 2021. Employing a descriptive-analytical approach coupled with observation, the researcher derived results that met the study's objectives. Among these findings, news items enhanced with video content topped the categorie

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Publication Date
Sat Oct 01 2022
Journal Name
Al–bahith Al–a'alami
PUBLIC RELATIONS ACTIVITY IN THE FOUNDATION OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
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Public relations have become vital functions in modern institutions in the complex business world. They play an important role in facilitating the process of communication between the institution and its audiences and achieve mutual understanding between the parties as public relations play this important role based on research and analysis, policy formulation and programming programs and communication with the public.

The significance of this research comes from the challenges faced by public relations in state institutions. Misunderstandings and ambiguities still plague most workers in this field, especially in defining the concept, objectives and basic functions of public rela

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Publication Date
Tue Mar 15 2022
Journal Name
Al-academy
Dramatic function of temporal variables in the feature film
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Time and space are indispensable basics in cinematic art. They contain the characters, their actions and the nature of events, as well as their expressive abilities to express many ideas and information. However, the process of collecting space and time in one term is space-time, and it is one of Einstein’s theoretical propositions, who sees that Time is an added dimension within the place, so the study here differs from the previous one, and this is what the researcher determined in the topic of his research, which was titled (The Dramatic Function of Space-Time Variables in the Narrative Film), Which included the following: The research problem, which crystallized in the following question: What is the dramatic function of the tempor

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Publication Date
Fri Aug 30 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
A Cognitive Linguistic Study of the English Preposition 'in'
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The present study aims at analyzing the polysemy of the English preposition in from the cognitive linguistic (CL) point of view using Evans' and Tyler's approach (2003). The perplexity faced by Iraqi second language learners (L2) due to the multi-usages of this preposition has motivated the researcher to conduct this study. Seventy-six second year university students participated in this experimental study. The data of the pre-test and post-test were analyzed by SPSS statistical editor. The results have shown the following: First, a progress of more than (0.05≤) has been detected as far as students' understanding of the multiple usages of the preposition in is concerned. Second, the results of the questionnaire have s

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Publication Date
Wed Oct 05 2016
Journal Name
Al-academy
The formal suspension of Hruvijat in contemporary Iraqi porcelain
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The research current (Comment formal for Hruvijat in contemporary Iraqi porcelain). In an attempt to study the Arab character that inspired the Iraqi artist of all intellectual its terms of reference and stylistic by taking advantage of the cultural heritage and the rebuilding of the character to create a system ride of relationships that focus on structural body ceramic body ideas and multiple implications are invested in the structural fabric of the products of contemporary ceramic .vdila for ways to achieve and processing techniques and transmission of functional specificity (blogging) and cosmetic particularly to semantics derive from the content and expresses itself templates ceramic raw materials and by building works of art in pla

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Publication Date
Tue Dec 01 2020
Journal Name
Journal Of Economics And Administrative Sciences
Reflection of the community participation in enhancing organizational excellence
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The research aims to identify the role of community participation in achieving organizational distinction in the Dhulia's municipality, which is one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works in Salah al-Din Governorate, which is one of the service organizations that have a fundamental role in providing service to the community, which has faced many administrative challenges and many problems caused by the rapid and continuous changes in the environment, therefore modern management concepts must be adopted, such as community participation and the knowledge of its role To achieve its goals, which helps it in facing changes as well as achieving organizational excelle

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Publication Date
Mon Jan 11 2021
Journal Name
Journal Of Planner And Development
The Social Aspect of Vertical Landscape in Residential Buildings
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The great raise and development of residential buildings in modern cities worldwide as a result of urban extends leads to environmental and social problems, that make the designers looking for more complicated and innovative solutions. To encounter these, most advanced technologies in construction had been used resulting buildings had become higher, which was moved away from the land called residential housing. And with the development of these buildings, increase in the inhabitants inside; generate distant from nature, which increased the need for interactive outdoor recreational spaces open green in its high sections, was an alternative or complementary option to outer space at the ground level. Therefore, the research problem has emer

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Publication Date
Tue Sep 19 2017
Journal Name
Al-academy
Avatar connotations in the works of sculptor Morteza Haddad
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Me researcher in this research study and discover the symbolic indications in the work of the Iraqi sculptor Morteza Haddad, has corrupted search of four chapters first chapter contains research problem and its significance and objectives of the research, which was to detect signs symbolism in works of contemporary Iraqi sculptor Morteza Haddad and terminology, which included significant the GTA and idiomatically and Velsfatta and conduct,

It also included the symbol for GTA and idiomatically and Velsfatta and hold, while the second chapter includes three sections are straight, semantics and icon, a brief on Iraqi contemporary sculpture, About the lives of contemporary Iraqi sculptor Then choose the terms of the research sample,

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