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Challenge: Calculate the reading level of a piece of text
From the course: Creating Online Content
Challenge: Calculate the reading level of a piece of text
(upbeat rhythmic music) - For this exercise, we're going to manually calculate the reading age of a piece of text. Although you can do this using most modern word processes, just search for help for reading statistics, going through the process with a pen and paper really helps you to understand the elements that make a piece of text harder or easier to read. Find the Exercise File called Chapter 2 - Reading Level. In it, you'll see that there's a piece of text and a graph. For now, just focus on the piece of text. What I want you to do is count the number of sentences and the number of syllables in the chunk of text. I've already marked out exactly 100 words, so you'll notice that there'll be a fractional sentence at the end. I normally count to the nearest 10th of a sentence. To count the syllables, say each word out loud, and count on your fingers the number of emphasis points. For instance, the word "emphasis" has three syllables, "em, pha, sis," a number like 49% has five…
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