<p>Post a writing sample [url=<a href=“http://www.ist.rit.edu/~jxs/services/TestReadability.html]here[/url”>http://www.ist.rit.edu/~jxs/services/TestReadability.html]here[/url</a>] and report your results.</p>
<p>I generally write anywhere between a 3rd and a 5th grade level. I pride myself on writing clearly. My most recent sample was a 5.94, and that was for a letter to the deans.</p>
<p>I can now red at a five grade level.</p>
<p>10.98…but I’m a senior so is that bad? lol</p>
<p>I got a 12.09, don’t know what that means.</p>
<p>^^^ lol, is that a reference to one of nigahiga’s videos? </p>
<p>I was thinking about putting up my 6-page research paper that I wrote for English class but I decided to just put up a 2-page essay. </p>
<p>Words: 635 </p>
<p>Sentences: 42 </p>
<p>Gunning Fog Index: 12.35 </p>
<p>Flesch Reading Ease Score: 55.20 </p>
<p>Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9.32</p>
<p>^Yes, you win the grand prize.</p>
<p>words:154
sentences:7
gunning fog:15.29
reading ease:56.51
grade level:10.84</p>
<p>I used my commonapp short answer essay.</p>
<p>words: 823
sentences: 20
Gunning Fog: 21.64
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 39.95
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 18.02</p>
<p>
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I’m apparently writing at grade level -2.03.
But then again, literacy is so overrated.</p>
<p>You can check it on microsoft word. It comes up after the spelling and grammar check. For me:
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 35-45</p>
<p>Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 12-13</p>
<p>Wow, an 18.02 grade level. You write super long sentences then, don’t you?</p>
<p>…? the **** I see on cc</p>
<p>Hmm is it better to score at a higher reading and grade level or lower? I would think you would want to write at a higher level, but the site makes it out as if you want it to be lower?</p>
<p>Anyway, I just posted the first paragraph of an essay I did my sophomore year (I didn’t know if the citations in the rest of the paragraphs would somehow mess up my score). I got:</p>
<p>Words: 185
Sentences: 9
Gunning Fog Index: 16.22
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 41.47
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 12.58</p>
<p>And I have no clue if this is good or bad, lol.</p>
<p>You know, most of you guys report your scores, but you’re all too dumb to scroll down. So, you act like you don’t know what they mean, when in reality, all it takes is some reading.</p>
<p>I entered a paper I wrote in June for APUSH.</p>
<p>12.37 grade level = 12 years education = 11th grade (not counting preschool). So, I’m on par with where I should be… good.</p>
<p>Summary for my notes:
Gunning Fog Index - Flesch Reading Ease Score - Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score
17.03 - 29.92 - 14.80</p>
<p>A paper I wrote for a Church Class:
Gunning Fog Index - Flesch Reading Ease Score - Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score
8.14 - 73.03 - 6.58</p>
<p>A paper for school:
Gunning Fog Index - Flesch Reading Ease Score - Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score
12.58 - 60.06 - 8.73</p>
<p>^^^Actually, hun, I did scroll down and read it :). But as I said before, it implies that it is better to have short, plain sentences and a lower reading and grade level. </p>
<p>“Short, plain sentences score better than long, complicated sentences. Based on syllables per word and words per sentence. Try for 8 - 10.”</p>
<p>I would think that if you’re at an education level above 10, you would want a higher score. But perhaps that’s just me :)</p>
<p>Soon to be a Junior in High School.</p>
<p>Gunning Fog Index: 22.59
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 31.50
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 18.72</p>
<p>For fun, I pasted Title I, Section 1101 of HR 1388 and got:</p>
<p>Gunning Fog Index - Flesch Reading Ease Score - Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score
33.33 - (-22.63) - 28.90</p>
<p>'twas an analysis of the poem “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson [incidentally my favorite poem]. The question was something like “What do the shifts in tone reveal about the speaker, and how does this relate to the theme?” Except it was probably worded a lot better.</p>
<p>@wickefied:
Most of the technical API documentation for Python libraries (including core documentation and syntax references) sit at around grade 12. These are the same technical manuals that are dreaded by techs everywhere, so I wouldn’t advise writing anything above 10.</p>
<p>EDIT: This applies to samples that are over a thousand words long.</p>