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A set of tools to determine readability statistics for text.
Updated on Feb 27, 09
Created on Feb 18, 09
Category: Schools & Education
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The 'fog factor' is a writer's yardstick to measure the acceptability of written work. It measures tautology, padded syllables, sentence length, multi-syllable words and other factors as a guide to meaningful writing.
Directions for Use of the Fry Readability Graph:
Randomly select three 100-word passages from a book or an article.
Plot the average number of syllables and the average number of sentences per 100 words on the graph to determine the grade level of the material.
Choose more passages per book if great variability is observed and conclude that the book has uneven readability.
Few books will fall into the solid black area, but when they do, grade level scores are invalid.
Online text analysis tool which provides statistics on readability and complexity as well as word frequency and character count.
Nice definition on page 3 - but won't let me highlight or add a note - McLaughlin (1969) defines readability as “the degree to which a given class of
people find certain reading matter compelling and comprehensible”.
I haven't started using this yet but when I found it I had been looking for something like this for a while. Rather than being an online tool where each piece of text must be copied and pasted one at a time, this tool will allow more flexible generation of readability stats on large datasets. Can't wait to get started with it.
A list of readability stats and summaries, plus links to calculating them.
An up to date note on the PHP code developed to measure readability and output known readabilty statistics.
MEASURING AND IMPROVING TEXT READABILITY: RECOMMENDED TESTING UTILITIES AND TEXTS
Readability Measure for any text
Quickly assess its Grade Level here!
You can test readability (Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, SMOG) with this handy tool:
developed by Mladen Adamovic.
Measuring Readability Level of Graded Readers
by various publishers: EPER (Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading, done by David Hill)
Proposed ER Scale for Graded Readers
by various publishers (from Rob Waring)
L2 Reading Comprehension Reference Bibliography List
(Brian Gill’s)
Give the Gunning Fog readability index and other parameters per each piece of text pasted.
Describes why readability is important for health information and refers to the SMOG readability index as most suitable for health information.
Notes on particular issues for dyslexic students when reading text and making inferences.
Allows piece by piece pasting of text to get readability information.
33 items | 14 visits
A set of tools to determine readability statistics for text.
Updated on Feb 27, 09
Created on Feb 18, 09
Category: Schools & Education
URL: