Nominalizations and Their Impact on Readers
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1996/PDFs/PG251254.PDF

Spyridakis, Jan H. and Carol S. Isakson
STC Proceedings
1996

Abstract:

The study presented here examined the effect of nominalizations in technical documents on readers’ recall and comprehension. Subjects read one of two technical passages in either a nominalized or denominalized form, and took recall and comprehension tests. Results indicate that denominalized passages can help readers retain more information when the original nominalizations are critical to the readers’ understanding of the passage.