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- *************************** Test.Txt ******************************
- This file lets you test the Import File feature. It also shows
- several types of writing - good and poor. Press [R]GL at the Results
- Menu, then press [T]ext & Graph to see text printed on your screen. Look
- at how the the Running Grade Levels change for the different sections.
-
- *** 1. From a Business Week article. Compare this with the next
- example. The topics of both: The growing gap between worker skills and
- the skills needed to do jobs.
-
- [Grade: 8 # Words/Sentence: 8 % Complex Words: 2%]
-
- In a dynamic economy there is always a gap between job demands and
- worker skills. Through most of its history, the U. S. has managed to
- keep that gap small. But not anymore. The nation is facing a monumental
- mismatch between jobs and the ability of Americans to do them. Unless
- the U. S. invests more to close this human capital deficit, the economy
- will be shunted onto a lower growth track.
-
- *** 2. From a U. S. government report titled "Automation and the
- Workplace."
-
- [Grade: 18 # Words/Sentence: 16 % Complex Words: 22%]
-
- At various stages in U. S. history, changes in workplace operations
- and procedures in all sectors of the economy have resulted in changes in
- education, training and retraining requirements. Changes in
- instructional requirements for manufacturing-related work have been
- particularly dramatic. In some instances, they have been so extensive
- and widespread that they have triggered changes in the structures of
- institutions and organizations engaged in the delivery of education,
- training and retraining services or the emergence of new instructional
- providers.
-
- *** 3. From an employee newsletter. Note it's complexity - in a
- newsletter for all staff (some with 5th-6th grade educations).
-
- [Grade: 15 # Words/Sentence: 32 (!!) % Complex Words: 21%]
-
- Some respondents felt that the projections should have been adjusted
- to reflect the impact of inflation on future account balances. The
- writers had a variety of suggestions for fixing the projections, ranging
- from putting a cap on them to printing a reminder that inflation over a
- long period of time is likely to have a significant effect on the
- spending power of projected (account) balances. Other employees
- suggested changing the assumptions, such as reducing either the assumed
- amount projected for an annual salary increase (5 percent) or the
- percentage projected as the rate of return (8 percent).
-
- *** 4. Legalese: Part of an employee benefits booklet-same company.
-
- [Grade: 19 # Words/Sentence: 103 (!!!!) % Complex Words: 16%]
-
- The right of any person to receive any payment from the Trust Fund,
- or to receive any other amount becoming payable to him under the
- provisions of the Plan, shall not be subject to alienation or assignment,
- unless required by law, except that a participant may make a voluntary
- and revocable assignment of up to 10% of any payment hereunder, with the
- consent of the Committee. If such person shall attempt to assign,
- transfer or dispose of such right in violation of this section, or should
- any right not assignable hereunder be subjected to attachment, execution,
- garnishment, sequestration or other legal, equitable or other process,
- it shall, to the extent permitted by law, ipso facto, pass and be
- transferred to such one or more as may be appointed by the Committee from
- among the beneficiaries, if any of the participant with respect to whom
- such right arises, and the spouse, blood relatives or dependents of such
- participants and in such shares and proportions as the Committee may
- appoint, provided, however, that notwithstanding any of the foregoing
- considerations or any appointments so made, the Committee, in its sole
- discretion may reappoint such person to receive any payment thereafter
- becoming due, either in whole or in part.
- [NOTE: The last sentence has 139 words!]