Readability tests

Have you ever wondered how important it is to make sure people not only read your articles and newsletter, but to make sure they understand what you have written.

Besides writing in an understandable fashion a lot of factors comes in to play when we measure if a text is understandable or not.

A number of more or less scientific tests, called readability tests have been deviced to evaluate your text and give some kind of mesurement indicating what level of study the reader should have to understant it.

To read more about readability in genereal, visit the readability section of wikipeida.

Most of these tests require quite complex analysis of your written material and applying mathematical formulas to the results from your analysis to finally deduce an index. This index number can then be compared to the level of knowledge (years in school) the reader should have to ge a full understanding.

Why Should You Care About This?

There are many reasons but the most obvious is that you should keep the complexity level so low that all your subscribers or readers can understand what you write. One will of course have to measure according to the readers and their knowledge as well as the overall theme of the text.

If we write a simple salesletter for a software the reader level should be kept quite low but if what you write is quantum physics written as a publication in ascientif journal the level obviously is at a completely other level.

How To Measure with Readability Test

There are some programs on the market (most of them costing from $49 and up) created to provide the service of readability tests. One can find some web sites offering free use of scripts that will do the trick. But I think there’s a better way to do it!

Upcoming Version of Ziney Pro with Readability Testing built in!

The next version of Ziney Pro, with an estimated release in april will have readability test built in!

This will make it as easy as pressing a button when writing your article to see the readability index for your article. With this capability you can write with a specific level in mind or quickly check and rewrite old articles.

All of this without paying for yet another piece of software!

More information to come.

Kenth