Readability Statistics

I challenge you to go to this website: http://www.ist.rit.edu/~jxs/services/TestReadability.html

Put in an essay of yours or something, and the site will tell you stuff about your essay; mainly just "how hard" it is to read. xD

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Gunning Fog Index

Gives the number of years education needed to understand the text. Short, plain sentences score better than long, complicated sentences. Based on words per sentence and "hard" words per sentence.

Flesch Reading Ease Score

Indicates how difficult the text is to read, where 100 is the easiest. Based on syllables per word and words per sentence. Try for score of 60 - 70.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score

Gives the number of years education needed to understand the text. Short, plain sentences score better than long, complicated sentences. Based on syllables per word and words per sentence. Try for 8 - 10.

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Something from Goodhue (essay for the Civil War Project)...

Gunning Fog Index: 14.01
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 50.87
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.77

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A Foss essay! To Kill A Mockingbird, to be exact. xD

Gunning Fog Index: 17.21
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 46.73
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 13.53

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Scores for an Addison essay (Great Expectations)... Surprisingly, the scores aren't that low... They beat my Goodhue essay. o.o Although the Goodhue one was mainly facts... Meh, I guess BS has its benefits. =P

Gunning Fog Index: 14.69
Flesch Reading Ease Scale: 48.65
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.96

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And one from over the summer (Sylvia Plath's "Daddy"). This just goes to show how much I slack off over the summer. xD

Gunning Fog Index: 12.35
Flesch Reading Ease Scale: 62.16
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.21

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And because Courtney did it, and I love Courtney (and stole this from her), I'm uploading something from Sloan's class too. In this case, it's my closing speech for the mock trial. I think the high scores might be because of the Chinese names in part though. xP

Gunning Fog Index: 13.94
Flesch Reading Ease Scale: 54.04
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.73