LiteracyNews.com Offers Free
Readability Analysis
You think you
are writing a masterpiece, but your readers think otherwise. Your masterpiece
is no masterpiece at all; it is a slushpile of difficult words, sentences and
phrases. Your readers feel alienated, confused and bored. Your masterpiece
suddenly becomes a discarded piece of trash. Had you known the reading level of
your masterpiece ahead of time, you could have rewritten your masterpiece for
the right audience.
If you want to write clearly and ensure your
readers can understand what you write, you need to find out the reading level
of your materials as part of your writing process, not after you distribute
your materials, according to Brian Konradt, founder of LiteracyNews.com.
Mr. Konradt has created a free Readability Analysis program that analyzes
text and gives the reading and grade level of the text. The free program is
available at
http://literacynews.com/readability/readability_analyses.php
“Knowing the reading level of your materials ahead of time helps you
to determine if you are writing for the proper grade level of your
readers,” according to Konradt. “Our program will help you to
determine if you are using too many difficult words, or too many long
sentences, or words with too many syllables. Then you can edit, trim and
substitute your words, phrases and sentences into something your readers can
understand easily.”
LiteracyNews.com’s Readability Analysis
uses three popular readability formulas to determine the reading level of
materials; they include Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. All three programs calculate the number of
sentences, words, syllables, and characters and use a mathematical formula to
determine a grade level.
Mr. Konradt launched LiteracyNews.com (http://www.literacynews.com) in 2006 to empower and inspire
literacy leaders and literacy educators to strive harder in helping people
improve their literacy skills. Mr. Konradt is also founder of LousyWriter.com
(http://www.lousywriter.com), a free web resource that
teaches writers and non-writers the mechanics of good writing.
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