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Writing is easy! People say. Is it really so? Truth is that it is one of the most seriously done creative jobs. Those who write knows how much pain and helluva lot of skill is required to compose a good writing.

But if you are one of those who are dead serious about writing and wish to make a direct impact on the readers with its understandability and precision then Google Docs is at your service.

It has parameters in it which can tell you beforehand whether the piece you have written is really good enough! Not to mention, it even tells you if you have created the best composition: understandable and comprehensible to an average school going student.

After you have created a document and wish to know everything about it like: Words, Characters, Paragraphs, Sentences, Pages (approximate)and Readability. Click on the Tools tag and than on Word Count.

After you have clicked on the Word Count, you will something like this that I have created for one of my document.



You could see under the Readability, inside the red coloured box there are some parameters which determines readability level whether it is harder or easier to read and also the understandability of the created text.

Flesch Reading Ease:

According to Flesch Reading Ease, scores of 90.0–100.0 are considered easily understandable by an average 11-year old student.13- to 15-year old students could easily understand passages with a score of 60–70, and passages with results of 0–30 are best understood by college graduates.[citation needed] Reader's Digest magazine has a readability index of about 65, Time magazine scores about 52, and the Harvard Law Review has a general readability score in the low 30s. (courtesy: wikipedia)

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level:

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level is an obvious use for readability tests in the field of education. It translates the 0–100 score to a U.S. grade level, making it easier for teachers, parents, librarians, and others to judge the readability level of various books and texts. It can also mean the number of years of education generally required to understand this text. For example, a score of 8.2 would indicate that the text is expected to be understandable by an average student in 8th grade. (courtesy: wikipedia)

Automated Readability Index:

It is a readability test designed to gauge the understandability of a text. its output is an approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text. A score of 8.2, for instance, should easily be understood by the average 8th grader. (courtesy: Wikipedia)

So, next time you write any piece run this tests and beforehand come to know where does your creation falls.

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