- MS WordRates text on a U.S. school grade level. For example, a score of 8.0 means that an eighth grader can understand the document. For most documents, aim for a score of approximately 7.0 to 8.0.
The formula for the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score is:
(.39 x ASL) + (11.8 x ASW) – 15.59
where:
ASL = average sentence length (the number of words divided by the number of sentences)
ASW = average number of syllables per word (the number of syllables divided by the number of words)
Tools => Options => Spelling & Grammar tab
select: Check grammar with spelling
select: Show readability statistics
Click Spelling and Grammar on toolbar to run check. Your score is at the bottom. Make sure only the stuff that's regular sentences is selected when run.
1. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.
2. Click Proofing.
3. Make sure Check grammar with spelling is selected.
4. Under When correcting grammar in Word, select the Show readability statistics check box.
counts
words: 2475
characters: 11951
paragraphs: 23
sentences: 153
averages
sentences per paragraph: 9.0
words per sentence: 16.0
characters per word: 4.6
readability
passive sentences: 11%
flesch reading ease: 59.5
flesch-kincaid grade level: 8.8
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counts
words: 1915
characters: 9747
paragraphs: 20
sentences: 101
averages
sentences per paragraph: 7.7
words per sentence: 18.7
characters per word: 4.9
readability
passive sentences: 15%
flesch reading ease: 47.6
flesch-kincaid grade level: 11.0
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Race essay:
counts
words: 1244
characters: 6162
paragraphs: 102
sentences: 66
averages
sentences per paragraph: 2.6
words per sentence: 16.4
characters per word: 4.7
readability
passive sentences: 16%
flesch reading ease: 51.4
flesch-kincaid grade level: 10.1
Economics essay:
counts
words: 1287
characters: 5230
paragraphs: 237
sentences: 56
averages
sentences per paragraph: 7
words per sentence: 18.6
characters per word: 4.3
readability
passive sentences: 10%
flesch reading ease: 62.9
flesch-kincaid grade level: 9.0
Custom Society, and it's destruction essay
counts
words: 1540
characters: 7807
paragraphs: 16
sentences: 74
averages
sentences per paragraph: 7.4
words per sentence: 20.6
characters per word: 4.9
readability
passive sentences: 27%
flesch reading ease: 43.1
flesch-kincaid grade level: 12.2
we need the "dp-lr mcriddle level"
words: 1723
characters: 9038
paragraphs: 14
sentences: 48
averages
sentences per paragraph: 4.0
words per sentence: 35.6
characters per word: 5.1
readability
passive sentences: 8%
flesch reading ease: 27.1
flesch-kincaid grade level: 12.0
Mind you I'm on mac:office 2004. AFAIK Offices prior to 2007 only have grade levels up to 12.0. I think that becuase I tested all of my philosophy essays and they were all 12.0. I'm not *that* consistent...
this is actually what i hate about our philosophy program. i'll try to be all abstract and mcriddlin' (which is what i love) and i'll get back my paper with suggestions for like twenty examples. so then i add very straightforward paragraphs so that a 5th grader understands:
"suppose that you kill your cat by dousing it with gasoline and lighting it. while this may seem to be ..."
ugh. you go read sartre or heidegger or husserl and tell me how many examples they use. oh.. none.
Pretty stupid that you have to do that with your papers lr...
likeholyshit:
nestor: words per sentence: 35.6
how is that even possible?! :o
A utilitarian would point out that any person striving to spread good will or even obey the categorical imperative merely serves as a means to an end, namely, the propagation of a good will that exists outside of the rational sphere by necessity.
Here's an above-average length sentence. Doesn't seem too long to me.
If I wasn't aware that I was graded partially on this metric I think I would care next to nil.
counts
words: 1165
characters: 6092
paragraphs: 17
sentences: 56
averages
sentences per paragraph: 4.3
words per sentence: 20.5
characters per word: 5.0
readability
passive sentences: 10%
flesch reading ease: 38.5
flesch-kincaid grade level: 12.0
I wonder how much the references page screwed that up.
essay on the movie Born on the Fourth of July done for Abnormal Psychology this Spring:
counts
words: 2669
characters: 13738
paragraphs: 23
sentences: 133
averages
sentences per paragraph: 7.8
words per sentence: 19.9
characters per word: 5.0
readability
passive sentences: 12%
flesch reading ease: 41.7
flesch-kincaid grade level: 12.0
counts
words: 652
characters: 3404
paragraphs: 8 (actually only 3, I dunno why it thinks there are 8)
sentences: 19
averages
sentences per paragraph: 6.3 (probably wrong too)
words per sentence: 33.0
characters per word: 5.0
readability
passive sentences: 15%
flesch reading ease: 38.3
flesch-kincaid grade level: 15.7 (woo!)
another periodical article review for the same class:
counts
words: 663
characters: 3689
paragraphs: 7 (again, actually only 3)
sentences: 26
averages
sentences per paragraph: 8.6
words per sentence: 24.9
characters per word: 5.4
readability
passive sentences: 11%
flesch reading ease: 27.0
flesch-kincaid grade level: 15.6
summary of a proposed research paper for Culturally Responsive Education:
counts
words: 527
characters: 2686
paragraphs: 5 (this might be right this time, I'm not sure)
sentences: 20
averages
sentences per paragraph: 5.0
words per sentence: 25.3
characters per word: 4.9
readability
passive sentences: 0%
flesch reading ease: 41.4
flesch-kincaid grade level: 13.7
another paper for this same class. about the same length, 2 pages or so.
counts
words: 508
characters: 2679
paragraphs: 10 (this is wayyy off)
sentences: 18
averages
sentences per paragraph: 3.6
words per sentence: 27.2
characters per word: 5.1
readability
passive sentences: 33% (woops)
flesch reading ease: 38.2
flesch-kincaid grade level: 14.3
longer paper (5-6 pages) I wrote for Developmental Psychopathology. I think this paper is pretty bad. I hate this class and didn't really try. let's see what Word thinks.
counts
words: 1325
characters: 7372
paragraphs: 7
sentences: 49
averages
sentences per paragraph: 7.0
words per sentence: 27.0
characters per word: 5.4
readability
passive sentences: 18%
flesch reading ease: 21.5
flesch-kincaid grade level: 16.9
I was just reading about these Flesch scores and they're pretty silly if you're trying to get anything out of them other than the level of vocabulary and sentence length.
someone should do some sort of statistical analysis of these data.
counts
words: 4103
characters: 21904
paragraphs: 50
sentences: 167
averages
sentences per paragraph: 5.2
words per sentence: 24.1
characters per word: 5.2
readability
passive sentences: 11%
flesch reading ease: 28.2
flesch-kincaid grade level: 15.3