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Subject: writing analysis
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 17:55:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 17:55:00 1983
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From:  Herb Lin <LIN @ MIT-ML>

You might want to take a look at some of the stuff by R. Flesch
who is the primary exponent of a system that takes word and sentence
and paragraph lengths and turns it into grade-equivalent reading
scores.  It's somewhat controversial.

[E.g., The Art of Readable Writing.  Or, "A New Readability Index",
J. of Applied Psychology, 1948, 32, 221-233.  References to other
authors are also given in Cherry and Vesterman's writeup of the
STYLE and DICTION systems included in Berkeley Unix.  -- KIL]