How to Use Readability Scores

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” — Albert Einstein

Why is Readability Important?

It might seem counterintuitive, but one of the best ways to prove yourself as a talented author is to make your work easier to read, not harder. If your language is too difficult for your readers to easily understand, you’ll turn them off from reading. It’s not about impressing by showing off all the fancy words you know; it’s about making your work accessible and enjoyable.

ProWritingAid’s Readability Report gives you an idea of how easy (or difficult) your work is to read and makes recommendations for areas that you can change to improve your document’s readability. In this article, we’ll cover how you can learn about your document’s readability using ProWritingAid.

Two different ProWritingAid reports give you your readability scores:

1) The Summary Report

The Summary Report provides you with a variety of readability scores that have been calculated using some of the top tools out there. It also breaks down your readability by paragraph, highlighting how many easy-to-read, slightly difficult-to-read, and very difficult-to-read paragraphs are in your…