Flesch

Okay, but let me show you another passage that I’ve chosen to exactly match the above passage in Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.

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It uses something called the Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

How easy is your writing to understand? dave gray 2005

On top of that, it also gives you something called the Flesch score.

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When I ran them through a simple test available on Microsoft Word, the Flesch Reading Ease Score FRES, something of a standard in the field, they tabulated nearly identical scores.

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They tabulate nearly identically on the Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), something of a standard in the field.

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Meant to say: Wood has a problem with the insistence that this constitutes a viable approach to literature, which at least some of the books you cite do. william Flesch Says:

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Back in the 1950's Rudolf Flesch was explaining "Why Johnny Can't Read" and in the eighties and nineties we had what has been termed as the Reading Wars between advocates of phonics and Whole Language advocates.

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When I ran them through a simple test available on Microsoft Word, the Flesch Reading Ease Score FRES, something of a standard in the field, they tabulated nearly identical scores.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

By way of control, sentences in the memoir section of Cashill's book "Sucker Punch" average 15 words in length and scored considerably higher on the Flesch test.

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And using Flesch on single sentences is like taking a poll sample of ten Canadian electors.

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