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I am a student in a masters program at an online university. The prof. is
using Word's readability statistics as an indication of the quality of our writing. I have recently discovered that an identical piece of writing produces different scores on my computer than it does on his (his are higher). We appear to have the same version of Word: Word 2003 that is part of the Professional 2003 Edition. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing the differences? |
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Just a thought: one of the computers might have a style set to 'Do not check
spelling or grammar' (under Style Modify Language), AND the document is set to update styles when opened (under Tools Templates and Add-ins). Rather than worry about it, you could chastise your prof for doing this at all. Readability stats are not a useful indicator of quality of writing, except in the Readers Digest sense. They are meaningless for anything written with tertiary level content. Ask the prof to explain why Moby Dick is 'badly written'... "Emily" wrote in message ... I am a student in a masters program at an online university. The prof. is using Word's readability statistics as an indication of the quality of our writing. I have recently discovered that an identical piece of writing produces different scores on my computer than it does on his (his are higher). We appear to have the same version of Word: Word 2003 that is part of the Professional 2003 Edition. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing the differences? |
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Thank you Jezebel, I will check into that.
The prof. is urging us to write at what Word considers a 9th grade level and with a high readability score - the higher the better. I agree that it isn't a good indicator of the quality of the writing, but I'm afraid I'm not in a position to question his approach. "Jezebel" wrote: Just a thought: one of the computers might have a style set to 'Do not check spelling or grammar' (under Style Modify Language), AND the document is set to update styles when opened (under Tools Templates and Add-ins). Rather than worry about it, you could chastise your prof for doing this at all. Readability stats are not a useful indicator of quality of writing, except in the Readers Digest sense. They are meaningless for anything written with tertiary level content. Ask the prof to explain why Moby Dick is 'badly written'... "Emily" wrote in message ... I am a student in a masters program at an online university. The prof. is using Word's readability statistics as an indication of the quality of our writing. I have recently discovered that an identical piece of writing produces different scores on my computer than it does on his (his are higher). We appear to have the same version of Word: Word 2003 that is part of the Professional 2003 Edition. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing the differences? |
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