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August | 2012 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for August, 2012. The Vocalic Cloze Procedure. August 21, 2012. The World Bank commissioned the National Council of Educational Research and Training (New Delhi) in February 1995 to assess the readability of primary level text-books in collaboration with CIIL (Mysore). Six states were covered: Assam, Haryana, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The results were published in IER: Special Number 1995. We will call this the vocalic cloze procedure.
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November | 2013 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for November, 2013. Seven Indices Of Readability. November 8, 2013. In ‘The Average Sentence Length’, I suggested that a sentence should not be measured only in words but also in syllables and letters. And I gave this rule of thumb: Over the whole document, make the average sentence length 15-20 words, 25-33 syllables and 75-100 characters. Look at this sentence from M.J. Moroney’s Facts From Figures. W-Index = W/2 = 18/2 = 9. S-Index = S/3 = 34/3 = 11.3. Write...
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February | 2013 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for February, 2013. February 8, 2013. This article appeared in the July-September 2012 issue of Vidura, a quarterly journal of the Press Institute of India. The most readable feature stories in magazines and newspapers are written in the conversational style. Plain English experts have laid much emphasis on the write-the-way-you-talk principle. In How To Take The Fog Out Of Writing. But how to reproduce the conversational tone in print? Flesch has an answer: Pu...
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Keeping track of readable language. The Rhythm Of Headlines. July 21, 2012. This article appeared in the January-March 2012 issue of Vidura, a quarterly journal of the Press Institute of India: http:/ pressinstitute.in/archvd2012/jan-mar-vidura-12.pdf. Many of the headlines that we read in newspapers allude to book or film titles and play with proverbial quotes or idiomatic expressions. Here are just three imaginary examples, with the allusions in brackets:. By using contractions, the number of syllables...
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October | 2012 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for October, 2012. The Seven Rs Of Sub-editing. October 1, 2012. 8212; This article appeared in the April-June 2012 issue of Vidura, a quarterly journal of the Press Institute of India: http:/ pressinstitute.in. Philip A. Yaffe, in his book titled. The Gettysburg Approach To Writing and Speaking Like A Professional. The panda eats, shoots and leaves. The comma changes the meaning). Major is a superfluous word. But. The ship will arrive in the month of May.
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September | 2014 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for September, 2014. September 17, 2014. Spotting vowels is easy; even a computer can do it. The vowels (. May not predict reading levels as reliably or as accurately as syllables can. But being closely associated with the syllables, vowels can measure text difficulty. A syllable may have one or more vowels:. H Beker and F. Piper’s table had first appeared in. Cipher Systems: The Protection Of Communication. To obtain a better estimate, let V25 be the number of...
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December | 2013 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for December, 2013. December 19, 2013. CK Ogden’s Basic English has 850 words, just enough to communicate with a global audience. Ogden’s list along with 50 international words could define or describe any word in a dictionary. Winston Churchill was impressed but Rudolf Flesch was not. To find the vocalic length of a word, count all occurrences of a e i o u. Must also be counted if a syllable of a word has no a e i o u. Is counted), stay (monovowel; only a.
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May | 2013 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for May, 2013. The Words We Choose. May 23, 2013. This article appeared in the Jan-March 2013 issue of Vidura, a quarterly journal of the Press Institute of India. A writer who thinks and feels is a writer who knows words that engage the reader. John Ayto, in his introduction to the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins. Which he considered easy) and of words beginning i. Edgar Dale compiled a list of 3000 words, familiar to 80 percent of 4. Graders in the U...
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October | 2014 | Readability Monitor
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Keeping track of readable language. Archive for October, 2014. The Simplicity Score Of Business Writing. October 27, 2014. If our writing measures up to this standard, then in 10 sentences there may be about 170 words. Too much of counting, you say? I have solved this problem with the help of a short sample of words, a count of complete sentences and a simple scoring system. What’s the SS of the following paragraph from Gunning? Let’s first draw an exact 35-word sample: But, while the Fog Index is handy ...
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