Monday, January 26, 2009

Expert vs. Novice

Professional             Student
Total number of words                 __465__                   __1,084__
Total number of sentences         __24__                      __48__
Longest sentence (in # of words) __41__                  __54__
Shortest sentence (in # of words) __2__                   __10__
Average sentence length              __19__                     __23__
Number of sentences w/ more than
10 words over the average length __4__                   __5__
Percentage of sentences w/ more
than 10 words over the average __16__                    __10__
Number of sentences w/ more than
5 words below the average          __4__                                      __13__
Percentage of sentences w/ more than
5 words below the average         __16__                                     __27__                                  
              Paragraph Length
Longest Paragraph (in # of sentences) __6__          __11__
Shortest Paragraph (in # of sentences) __2__      __5__
Average Paragraph (in # of sentences) __4__      __8__
From this exercise I learned that although the expert had less words the percentages were really close.  I think that for the most part we had the same kind of structure, except the professional was more concise with his concepts, however I don't think that that is possible for my paper.  I really need to sit down and see if I can be more concise at any point and work on that. 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is great that you have basically the same structure as the professional! I also need to be more concise in my writing.

Jordan Brock said...

That's great that the percentages are really close. I also need to work on being concise and getting my idea conveyed in fewer sentences.

Aaron said...

Yea getting the point across in the same structure as a professional is exceptional. My paper was definitly not the same in percentages.