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ReadabilityPlus
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Vocabulary Assessor uses 9 popular readability formulas to determine if
your target audience can read your materials with ease.
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What good are your written materials if your
readers find them too difficult to understand? Alienate, bewilder and bore your
readers, and they will hurl your materials in the trash can.
If you
want to write effectively and ensure your readers can understand what you
write, you need to assess the reading level of your materials by using one (or
more than one) readability formula. Although we have used readability formulas
for decades, using them -- with their many formulaic steps and tedious
word/syllable/sentence counting -- can be a burden on the brain and a tax on
time; that is, up until now.
READABILITY
PLUS, a Windows/Macintosh-based reading assessment program by Micro
Power & Light Co., automates the process of determining the reading level
of your materials, saving you time, money and plenty of headaches. Simply
import or paste your text into READABILITY PLUS, and the program quickly
analyzes your text and tells you the reading level(s) of your material using up
to nine of the most popular readability formulas.
READABILITY PLUS can give you reading levels on all of
your materials; this includes technical manuals, reports, brochures, press
releases, text books, articles, business publications, and so forth. Now you
can feel confident that your readers will be able to understand your material
and that you have not wasted your time and energy in writing your material for
the wrong audience.
READABILITY PLUS is a
productivity software package containing up to nine of the most widely used
readability formulas supporting the assessment of written materials - primary
through college level. Formulas include the Fry Graph,
Dale-Chall, Flesch Reading Ease as well as Flesch Grade
Level, FORCAST, FOG, SMOG, Powers-Somner-Kearl
and Spache.
With access to a number of readability formulas, the
READABILITY PLUS is an indispensable readability
software for assessing the reading level of written materials - whether by
reading specialists, teachers, trainers, librarians, instructional writers,
curriculum writers, policy and procedure writers, technical writers
...
READABILITY PLUS contains the following
nine formulas:
Formula # 1:
Dale-Chall
A vocabulary-based formula normally used to assess upper
elementary through secondary materials.
Formula #
2: Flesch Reading Ease
Normally used to assess adult
materials, shows scores on a scale between 0 and 100.
Formula # 3: Flesch Grade Level
Most reliable
when used with upper elementary and secondary materials.
Formula # 4: Fry Graph
Used over a wide grade
range of materials, from elementary through college and beyond.
Formula # 5: FOG
Widely used in the health
care and general insurance industries for general business publications.
Formula # 6: Powers-Sumner-
Kear
Used in assessing primary through early elementary level
materials.
Formula # 7: SMOG
Unlike any of the other formulas, SMOG predicts the grade level required
for 100% comprehension.
Formula # 8:
FORCAST Focuses on functional literacy. Used to assess non- running
narrative, e.g. questionnaires, forms, tests ...
Formula # 9: Spache
A vocabulary-based
formula widely used in assessing primary through fourth grade
materials.
The following features make ReadabilityPLUS software the most
complete and powerful program available in today's marketplace:
Help
In Context Screens include Help menus, providing ready instructions for
use on that screen.
One Pass
In most cases you may specify
multiple formulas to be applied in a single pass of the sample text.
Keyed Samples
Samples of text to be assessed may be entered
directly into the program from the keyboard.
File Samples
The program can also evaluate samples created and saved as text files from any
word processor.
Scanned Text
Program can accept scanned
text, first cleaned and saved as text files from any word processor.
No Size Limits
The program accepts any size sample - from the
conventional 100 words, to the entire text.
Raw Counts
In
addition to actual formula scores, the program also displays all relevant raw
data statistics.
Hardcopy Printout of all scores and raw data
can be obtained at the conclusion of each assessment.
Text
Editing
It is very easy to direct the program to ignore any words in
its assessment of the sample.
User Manual
Includes all the
basic information needed to install and use the program.
The Latest
Info
A ReadMe file on the original media describes the newest features
and operating tips.
BONUS: Vocabulary Assessor
ReadabilityPLUS
also comes with THE VOCABULARY ASSESSOR.
Reading specialists,
teachers, trainers, librarians, instructional writers, curriculum writers,
policy and procedure writers, technical writers... any persons wanting to (1)
identify all words in a document, or (2) identify just the
potentially-difficult words, and (3) know how many times each such word occurs
in the document.
Whereas
Readability
Calculations software indicates the appropriate grade-level of text
material, the Vocabulary Assessor can go further - identifying exactly which
words in the text are likely to be most troublesome for the intended
readers.
How Does It Work? The document to be evaluated is input
to the program as a text file, created and saved previously by any convenient
word processor program.
Entire documents may be scanned into your
favorite word processor, cleaned up by using that program's spelling checker,
saved to disk as a text file... and then input into the Vocabulary Assessor for
its analyses.
If you want the program to merely identify all words in
the document, you need supply it only the document text.
Alternatively,
if you want the program to identify only the words potentially difficult for a
certain group of readers - in addition to the document text you must also
supply the program a "vocabulary list" of words with which the readers are
already assumed to be familiar.
Vocabulary Lists can be associated with
grade level mastery, special education needs, subject mastery, etc. Such lists
may be your own creation, or available from your state's education agencies, or
any other source whatsoever
The Vocabulary Assessor compares every word
in the document text with those in the vocabulary list, and identifies
unmatched words as "potentially difficult." These may be reported in two useful
sequences - alphabetically and frequency of occurrence.
The Vocabulary
Assessor is frequently used with Readability Calculations. Consider the
money-saving ReadabilityPlus package for purchasing the two together.
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System
Requirements
ReadabilityPLUS installs quickly and runs on any
minimal stand-alone Windows or Macintosh computer. The Windows-version and the
Macintosh-version comes on CD-ROM.
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