{"id":827,"date":"2007-10-31T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/10\/31\/reading-ease-redux\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T23:00:30","slug":"reading-ease-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/10\/31\/reading-ease-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading ease redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exactly one week ago I posted an entry called Writing for magazines: what level of difficulty?<\/a> It was about achieving that supposedly magical “grade nine” level of writing (*). Well, I’m a recidivist, I guess …back- (or is that “up-“?) sliding to a more-comfortable-for-me number. I finished my December article for FOCUS Magazine<\/em>, and here’s what google doc’s “word count analysis” tells me:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n
Readability<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Average sentences per paragraph: 4.85
\nAverage words per sentence: 13.14
\nAverage characters per word: 5.80
\nAverage words per page: 414.00
\nFlesch Reading Ease: [?] 39.21
\nFlesch-Kincaid Grade Level: [?] 11.00
\nAutomated Readability Index: [?] 12.00<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh well, eh? According to Wikipedia’s entry on the Flesch-Kincaid index<\/a>, I just escaped the Harvard Law Review orbit…!<\/p>\n

(*) And, mea culpa<\/em>, I just looked at that entry from Oct.24 and realize that the read-out wasn’t fully reproduced. I will try to find the old draft now and fix\/ update last week’s entry — the point was that my “Flesch Reading Ease” was somewhere in the 50s (I think?), and the “Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level” was 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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