11-14-2005

Communication Nation: How easy is your writing to understand?

Communication Nation has a good post about analyzing documents for readability.

Are your written messages easy to read and understand? One way to know is to look at how often people respond positively to your requests; or whether they respond at all.

From there, I found links to a couple of web forms that analyze text for readability:

I tried writing a bookmarklet to feed selected text into the form on the second site, but it chokes when the text gets too long. I’m guessing that there is a way to use post instead of get when passing the text to the form, but I need to dig into javascript a bit more to figure out how to handle that. If you happen to know the trick, please feel free to post a comment.

Posted by Matt in bookmarklets, communication, reading, tech, writing | RSS 2.0

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