Writing Sample Analyzer
This one you’ll likely bookmark and keep using! Copy and paste a substantial writing sample into the Analyzer, and it then gives you some mighty revealing measurements of your writing.
Character, word and sentence counts? Ho hum. It’s the next three measurements that will pique your interest:
- Flesch Reading Ease
- Fog Scale Level
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
In brief, all are indicators of how easy (or hard) your writing is to read.
The measurement I like to check is the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. Measuring my recent Mobile Writers: Do You Really Need a Laptop?, the Analyzer gives it a grade level of — woo hoo! — 6.87. Man, that’s not even High School! Must be dumb writing.
Just for the heck of it, let’s check Vonnegut’s How to Write With Style… Well, what do you know… 5.48.
Well, well, well.
Getting that number to move up is derriere easy… just open up a Thesaurus and replace each word with something at least three syllables long. Voila! A piece for college level readers, you genius you!
POINT: For a lot of Wordpreneur writing (most? all?), you want that number down, not up! If Vonnegut keeps his stuff at grade school level, what makes us think ours will work better above that?
As you can see from the numbers, I’m still working on it.
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