I receive many comments telling me that my articles and speeches are very clear.
Do you really understand the message that you are trying to deliver? Does the reader understand you? Do you wish to be understood? Are you just trying to impress?
Think about form once you understand what and to whom, you are trying to communicate.
If you have something to communicate in writing, the Fogg Index WILL help.
Try the following test.....
- Take a passage of 100 words.
- Calculate average number of words per sentence to give a value A.
- Count number of polysyllables in the passage to obtain a value B - a polysyllable is a word with three or more syllables; do not count "ed" and "ing" where they are used as word endings. “Non-words” like 1951 and are one syllable..
- Having derived the values of A and B,
calculate I from the following equation.....
I = (A + B) x 0.4
...where...
I is the index value
A is the average number of words per sentence
B is the number of polysyllables.
The value of I will equal the number of years schooling or online college required by a reader to understand the passage that has been evaluated.
A score of 11 is high, 6 is much better.
Respect your reader and don't hide your message!