Total number of words __472_________ ___1041_____
Total number of sentences ____24_______ ___42_____
Longest sentence (in # of words) ____33_______ ___45_____
Shortest sentence (in # of words) ____4_______ ___7_____
Average sentence length ____13_______ ___18_____
Number of sentences w/ more than
10 words over the average length _____1______ ___8_____
Percentage of sentences w/ more
than 10 words over the average _____.004______ ___.19_____
Number of sentences w/ more than
5 words below the average ____3_______ ___7_____
Percentage of sentences w/ more than
5 words below the average ____.12_______ ___.16_____
Paragraph Length
Longest Paragraph (in # of sentences) _____9______ ___13_____
Shortest Paragraph (in # of sentences) _____3______ ___7_____
Average Paragraph (in # of sentences) _____7______ ___11_____
As you can see from the statistics the difference between me and a professional is very noticeable. Not only based on the statistics but in the overall style. This particular article had short succinct sentences that really got the point across efficiently. I am going to try to do that with my future writings.
2 comments:
You and I both picked articles that were dramatically different in size from our own. Do you think that made the comparisons a little unfair? You can find an article that's 1/4 the size of your own, but the sentences are probably the same no matter what. The same with paragraphs...
I found the same thing in the article I chose. The author was a lot more direct, concise, and to the point without using very much filler or unnessecary information. That is something that I need to get better at in my writing.
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