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The One Score That Can Improve Your Writing with a Single Click
- viridian 10y agoIt's funny how the title of this story, in optimizing for F-K score, looks exactly like most internet clickbait, but I suppose that isn't a coincidence. I myself have found this to be a large problem in my writing. I'm an on and off writer for a corporate newsletter that my company distributes internally, and at this point I include online F-K score checks into my drafting process. This isn't a humble brag or anything, I actually think many technical people aren't able to express themselves well due to writing in a way that is very hard to intuit. (comment f-k score is 12, btw)
- imglorp 10y agoTLDR: write at a lower grade level for more appeal. It's a sales pitch for what seems like a multi-level direct sales marketing scheme dressed in a marketing copywriting school. The post is bait; the hook is the link at the bottom.
- ivan_ah 10y agoIn case anyone is wondering, this is the specific formula: def KincaidGradeLevel(syllables, words, sentences): return 11.8*(syllables/words) + 0.39*((words/sentences)) - 15.59