Thursday, April 28, 2005

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Readability Results - Summary Value

Total sentences 364
Total words 4,717
Average words per Sentence 12.96
Words with 1 Syllable 3,228
Words with 2 Syllables 932
Words with 3 Syllables 401
Words with 4 or more Syllables 156
Percentage of word with three or more syllables 11.81%
Average Syllables per Word 1.47
Gunning Fog Index 9.91
Flesch Reading Ease 69.59
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 6.77
Interpreting the Results

Philip Chalmers of Benefit from IT provided the following typical Fog Index scores, to help ascertain the readability of documents.
Typical Fog Index Scores Fog Index Resources
6 TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain
8 Reader's Digest
8 - 10 Most popular novels
10 Time, Newsweek
11 Wall Street Journal
14 The Times, The Guardian
15 - 20 Academic papers
Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can't ignore them.
Over 30 The government is covering something up"

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