How Readable is YOUR MOG?
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Track:Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
I recently came across a couple of on-line analytic tools that might be of interest to MOGgies:
First, from something that bills itself as The Blog Readability Test, these analyses of the average readability levels of three of my favourite MOGgies:
Mike the Knife:
Anna:
ME:
And here, from another site, is a more detailed analysis of part of my recent post about the Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings (from "On July 25, 1946..." to "...of this lynching.") Notice that it fails to recognise paragraph breaks in the text:
Reading Levels
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 10.3 grade
ARI (Automated Readability Index): 12.7 grade
Coleman-Liau 8.4 grade
Flesch Reading Ease: 70.7/100
Gunning fog index: 13.8 grade
Laesbarhedsindex (LIX) Formula: 44.6 = school year 8
SMOG Index: 10.4 grade
Average grade level: 11.1 (mean of above grade levels)
Sentence Information
Number of characters: 718
Number of words: 167
Characters per word: 4.30
Syllables per word: 1.28
Number of sentences: 6
Words per sentence: 27.8
Number of short sentences: 2 (33%, 23 words or less)
Number of long sentences: 1 (17%, 38 words or more)
Number of paragraphs: 1
Sentences per paragraph: 6.0
Number of questions: 0 (0%)
Number of passive sentences: 4 (67%)
Longest sentence: 48 words long
Shortest sentence: 8 words long
Word Usage
Number of to be verbs: 5
Number of auxiliary verbs: 0
Number of conjunctions: 4 (2% of words)
Number of pronouns: 7 (4% of words)
Number of prepositions: 23 (14% of words)
Number of nominalizations: 2
Sentence Beginnings
Pronouns: 0
Interrogative pronouns: 0
Articles: 1
Subordinating conjunctions: 0
Conjunctions: 0
Prepositions: 3
Comments (17)
My MOG comes up as Junior High but my blog comes up at College (Undergrad).
The Blog Readability Test finds my "Wahiawa786" blog set at high school level.
qué interesante
I'm curious as to what this thing actually "reads." I gave the url for my mog page and it came up as Junior High. Figuring this included a bunch of lists I tried it on a specific post that I thought was fairly well written and it came up as Elementary.
I may not be at my most formal on Mog, but I'm an editor and published writer and these ratings are crap.
I WANT these ratings to work, I find this sort of thing entertaining.
So, out of curiosity, I found a link to scene 1 of King Lear: it's "elementary."
Fuckin a, I'm as good as my favorite Shakespeare.
Actually, if you go tohttp://www.storytoolz.com/readability/index and run an analysis of some text and follow up on the links for these factors:
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
ARI (Automated Readability Index)
Coleman-Liau
Flesch Reading Ease
Gunning fog index
Laesbarhedsindex (LIX) Formula
SMOG Index
You will find that (within limits) the lower the indcated grade level, the better it is considered to be for publsihed material - that the grade levels measured are not necessarily a measure of the writer's ability or sophistication, but rather a measure of the grade-level of reading ability needed toread the material with 100% comprehension.
So, for instance, notice that by one measure (Gunning fog index: 13.8 grade), the equivalent reading level needed to read my post with 100% comprehension would be nearly a college junior level (in US terms).
Of course, if you come up with "grade 1" across the board, your writing is probably a little simplistic fro MOG...
ahahhahahahhahahhahahhah
But you also need an MA in popular culture ;)
See, I'm accessible to everybody. In e-terms :P
I got an elementary level...but don't know how much that is going to change the way I do business.
Annie, I say we keep them as they are. After all, elementary school was the school we had the most fun at :)
It sure beat highschool.
Bum! I got Junior High School when I wanted elementary school. Nice Avatars though!
Burn!...I have to start using that more. I like the image it conjures up in my mind.
Neill, you gave me a fantastic idea. My elementary school badge is now my MOG avatar yay!
Writing experts generally agree that it's best to have one's writing style be simple, lean, easily understood and with no unnecessary words. Sometimes it's hard to tread the razor-thin line between ignoramus and know-it-all, and sometimes I feel unsure that I have enough grey matter to be capable of even being resented as a know-it-all.
Spike said:
Sometimes it's hard to tread the razor-thin line between ignoramus and know-it-all, and sometimes I feel unsure that I have enough grey matter to be capable of even being resented as a know-it-all.
Boy, i know *that* feeling.
fairportfan, if you can understand me, then I'm with you at junior high level.
Someone did this a long time ago...but its still fun and I'm still Junior High..
I've been writing for junior high schoolers since I joined MOG. You mean to tell me this isn't an online junior high school? (For the purpose of clarity, none of this is aimed at my usual audience: doctoral candidates, Nobel prize winners, rocket scientists, and brain surgeons.)