Re: Reading levels?

[Herman Holtz <holtz -at- PALTECH -dot- COM>]

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>From: Brett E Lee <leex0096 -at- maroon -dot- tc -dot- umn -dot- edu>
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>Subject: Reading levels?
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>Does anyone know of a resource (book or software) that defines the reading
>level required to understand certain words (i.e. enable, disable, program,
>configure)?

>My department is attempting to write some of our documents at an 8th-grade
>reading level.  We know that many of our words are beyond this level, and
>we need a resource to reference while developing word-usage
>guidelines for our style guide.

        There is an old DOS shareware program called Max-Read that would probably do
what you want. If you are interested, let me know via email, and I will hunt
down the detials for you. - Herm



>Thanks!

>Brett Lee     Leex0096 -at- maroon -dot- tc -dot- umn -dot- edu

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