The Sentence Length Variance Calculator measure the variance of sentence lengths in your text to help you revise for more effective rhythm. Often when we’re writing, we has an idea of good rhythm but are not sure what it looks like on paper. We write our piece and read it out loud. Something isn’t quite […]

Estimate the readability of Arabic texts with sentences, syllables as a proxy for difficulty, percentage of long words (4+), diacritics on or off, right-to-left display and more. The formula is explained. Formula explained. A readability score predicts how hard you’ll have to work as a reader of Arabic. Using the Osman method, it measures mechanical […]

So you open up your draft and think: This looks good. But there’s just something off with the rhythm, readers pull away from it. Maybe each sentence appear okay on its own, but together they create either a dragging or racing pace. More than likely, that insidious undercurrent has to do with median sentence length. […]

Compare your distributions. How has the draft improved or changed? Compare draft lengths. How long are your words? Did you use more stopwords in this draft? Are there more long words than short ones? When we look at how long each word lasts, that’s when the rhythm of what you write hides. Short words tumbling […]