Have you ever wondered what level of reader you are writing
for? Or for that matter have you ever wondered
what level the books you are reading are meant for? Seems there are a variety of on line tools,
free of charge, that an author can use to check the level of your words and
sentence structure. I checked some of my blog posts, fifth to seventh grade,
and also typed in some of the stuff I was reading, two novels, both seventh
grade. And how does that stack up, well average reading material is fifth to
seventh grade so I guess what I am writing is at about the correct level. Think
I may challenge myself to find some more difficult reading material.
Here are two great online tools to check up on yourself, try
them out it is great fun. I tested this blog, complete with links, and here are
my results.
http://www.writingtester.com/
, my readable Score was, 57/ 100, the higher the number the easier it is to
read. Grade level for this post, came in
at a grade six.
The second analyzer is based on tried and true methods used
in American schools for many years. This scale is based on the, Flesch Reading
Ease Scale, a popular readability algorithm. You can find this analyzer at, http://sarahktyler.com/code/sample.php,
using this scale the same block post came in at a grade level of 6.3, very
similar to the writing tester. Surprisingly when I added in the links the
reading level for this analyzer went down to 4.54, interesting, not sure what
that means.
This might be a waste of time but it beats the computer card
game I was playing.
3 comments:
Thanks for the links. I'll give it a try.
You might also try www.analyzemywriting.com. You can see a graph of how the readability changes throughout the text.
Thanks Ulysses, I took a look at the site, very nice am going to give it a try. Thanks, and I am following now.
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