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Word Choice Guidance
My apologies if this isn't the best group for the question, I'm tapping many
sources on this hoping to find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I'm a technical writer and familiar with MS-Word's "Fleish-Kincaid Readability" statistics. A nice tool, but one that doesn't provide guidance along with the information. Anyone know of a source for readability/grade level guidance? An example being the "Don't utilize 'utilize', use 'use!" admonition for simplicity. We aim for an 8th grade reading level overall and I know there are words that tend to be higher level and words that tend to be lower level. I can catch a lot myself (This all started when I realized I was writing "prior to" instead of "before" and "necessary" instead of "needed") but got to thinking that perhaps there's some form of guidance. Any suggestions would be appreciated, Shane |
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There's a huge "plain English" movement that aims to replace "gobbledegook"
with simpler words. Even some government agencies have joined it. Have a look at http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...ain+english%22 for starting places, especially http://www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. SV wrote: My apologies if this isn't the best group for the question, I'm tapping many sources on this hoping to find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I'm a technical writer and familiar with MS-Word's "Fleish-Kincaid Readability" statistics. A nice tool, but one that doesn't provide guidance along with the information. Anyone know of a source for readability/grade level guidance? An example being the "Don't utilize 'utilize', use 'use!" admonition for simplicity. We aim for an 8th grade reading level overall and I know there are words that tend to be higher level and words that tend to be lower level. I can catch a lot myself (This all started when I realized I was writing "prior to" instead of "before" and "necessary" instead of "needed") but got to thinking that perhaps there's some form of guidance. Any suggestions would be appreciated, Shane |
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Jay,
Thanks for th einfo, I'll dig right in.. "Plain English" was a search I hadn't considered!!! Shane "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... There's a huge "plain English" movement that aims to replace "gobbledegook" with simpler words. Even some government agencies have joined it. Have a look at http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...ain+english%22 for starting places, especially http://www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. SV wrote: My apologies if this isn't the best group for the question, I'm tapping many sources on this hoping to find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I'm a technical writer and familiar with MS-Word's "Fleish-Kincaid Readability" statistics. A nice tool, but one that doesn't provide guidance along with the information. Anyone know of a source for readability/grade level guidance? An example being the "Don't utilize 'utilize', use 'use!" admonition for simplicity. We aim for an 8th grade reading level overall and I know there are words that tend to be higher level and words that tend to be lower level. I can catch a lot myself (This all started when I realized I was writing "prior to" instead of "before" and "necessary" instead of "needed") but got to thinking that perhaps there's some form of guidance. Any suggestions would be appreciated, Shane |
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