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To remain competitive in today's market, publishers of
newspapers,
magazine, books, and online media must be certain that their materials'
reading level is meeting their respective target audiences. If articles
are written with overly long sentences and unnecessarily complex words,
then perspective readers are going to lose interest very quickly. With
Readability Studio, you have the tools to both determine the reading
level of your articles, as well as tools to make them easier to
read. Readability Studio includes many of the popular
tests used throughout the publishing industries, including:
- Dale-Chall—useful
for most text.
- Spache—useful
for primary age
(Kindergarten to 7th grade) readers to help classify school textbooks
and literature.
- Powers, Sumner, Kearl—useful
for most text
geared towards primary age (Kindergarten to 7th grade) readers.
- SMOG—useful
for most text and tests for
100% comprehension, whereas most formulas test for around 50%-75%
comprehension.
- Flesch
Reading Ease—useful for most text
and is a standard
used by many U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Department of
Defense.
- Gunning Fog—useful
for business
publications and journals.
- Coleman-Liau—useful for secondary age (4th
grade to college level) readers. This test usually yields the lowest
grade
when applied to technical documents.
- Laesbarhedsindex (LIX)—useful
because it
can be used on documents of any Western European
language.
- Fry Graph—useful
for most text, including
literature and technical documents.
- Raygor
Estimate Graph—useful for most text,
including literature and technical documents.
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