This back matter page calculator will help you calculate the number of end pages needed for a print parity, sample chapters, acknowledgments, author bio, glossary, index, bibliography or notes. And then there’s that thing that happens to every author: You finish writing the meat of your book and discover the back matter is going to […]

To find best fit for the passage in terms of potential readership, the readability consensus score calculator average out the biggies, identifying outliers and getting a sense of what reading level it’s probably written at. Who’s going to get this? You’ve got a draft of something, a legal notice, a blog post, a kid’s story, […]

Use a passive voice percentage calculator to guess how many passive sentence you have. Find out which patterns are used for be/get participles. Count the number of by-agent phrase. Benchmark these against target values for genres. Passive voice: That’s what writers call the uninvited guest in the living room. They recognize its face and feel […]

To estimate your own reading level, try the McAlpine EFLAW readability calculator (which count words), sentences, and miniwords in a piece of writing. Before you edit text that will be read by learners, see if it’s an EFL/ESL level that are appropriate for them. Each additional clause and syllable tangles the web for anyone learning […]