Know The Reading Levels Of Your Materials -- In A Flash! -- And Never Write For The Wrong Audience Again

Readability Calculations, a Windows/Macintosh-based reading-level assessment program, automates the process of determining the reading level of your materials, saving you time, money and plenty of headaches.

(PRWEB) June 6, 2004 --Why waste your time writing materials that your readers find too difficult to understand? Alienate, bewilder and bore your readers, and they will slam-dunk your materials in the trash can.

To write effectively for your audience and ensure your readers can understand what you write, professionals recommend you assess the reading level of your materials by using one (or more than one) readability formula.

Readability Calculations, a Windows/Macintosh-based reading-level assessment program, determines the reading level of your materials, saving you time, money and plenty of headaches.

The ancient way of calculating reading levels forces you to tediously count words, syllables, and sentences and adhere to a complicated formula. But no more. Simply import or paste your text into Readability Calculations, and the program quickly analyzes your text and tells you the reading level(s) of your materials using up to nine of the most popular readability formulas.

Readability Calculations can give you reading levels of all of your materials; this includes technical manuals, reports, brochures, press releases, text books, articles, business publications, white papers, business correspondence, and so forth. Now you can feel confident that your readers will be able to understand your materials and absorb your information easily.

Readability Calculations costs $69.95. An expanded version, ReadabilityPLUS, contains an additional feature called the Vocabulary Assessor, and costs $119. Both programs can be purchased online at ReadabilityFormulas.com (http://www.ReadabilityFormulas.com), the web site of Plain English tools, or by calling My Byline Media at 800-797-9027 (or 843-215-1492).

Readability Calculations contains up to nine readability formulas; they include:

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.

For more information on how Readability Calculations can help you write more effectively for your targeted audience, please visit
us online at http://www.ReadabilityFormulas.com

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