LAmom: MY READABILITY LEVEL

Thursday, July 10, 2008

MY READABILITY LEVEL

When I worked at Daniel Freeman Hospital, my job was to write educational materials about health maintenance and the physiology of pregnancy and childbirth at a 4th- to 6th-grade reading level. And I did it quite well.

Jul 10, 2008 8:08:54 PM | Weblogs

3 Comments

Dang, all of my blogs are elementary school level

Posted by: LA Chat | Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Mine came out Elementary?? Wow. I wonder if the U of R will revoke my MA in English!

Posted by: Lee | Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 03:23 AM

Readability is a dual-edged sword.

If you make it too difficult to read, no one will want to read it. If you make it too easy, they'll realize that you aren't telling them anything particularly difficult, so why are you charging so much?

Posted by: UncaAlby | Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 09:37 PM

The comments to this entry are closed.

DISHES I HAVE EATEN RECENTLY Sauteed zucchini Grilled squash Scrambled eggs with shredded zucchini Pasta with chunks of squash Crockpot chicken with squash Chicken and squash soup Zucchini walnut muffins Stuffed squash Right now, there's a squash casserole in the oven.

GHOSTS Jonathan at The Gridbook Blog writes eloquently about the images of beauty and vitality that we can see on film, preserved images of people who have long ago stopped looking the way they looked then. This very same thought has...