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Book Reviews

Monday, August 2, 2004

How readable are my writings? -- Comment()
I installed the Unix tools diction and style to analyze my English writing. Here are some ratings for selected writings:

Forestry of the Future readability grades:
Kincaid: 6.4
Lix: 32.8 = below school year 5
Normal or Hypertext? readability grades:
Kincaid: 6.8
Lix: 37.5 = school year 5
The Last Rebel Coders readability grades:
Kincaid: 9.7
Lix: 46.2 = school year 8
Weblogs on the borderline of control and chaos readability grades:
Kincaid: 9.8
Lix: 45.3 = school year 8
Can we trust computational results? readability grades:
Kincaid: 10.6
Lix: 49.1 = school year 9

So, it seems that my level of writing varies a lot. Probably the subject matter affects the results.

-- Comment()
Unlocking Human Potential Through Social Networking: "The paper entitled Smarter, Simpler, Social - An introduction to online social software methodology is an absolutely brilliant and well referenced resource to understand and appreciate the forces at work in our communication efforts." [via Gurteen Knowledge Log]