Here's a quick excerpt of my work from a film review I did on Watchmen:
"But by far the greatest performance was by Jackie Earle Haley who plays probably Watchmen’s most famous character, Rorschach. He did this character to perfection even making him a little more bad ass than the original. He really brought out the pessimism, the angst, the hatred, and the black and white philosophies of this character and it’s sad that such a great performance will likely won’t even be mentioned for an academy award nomination. To me his performance will always be one of the best comic book character portrayals of all time, right up there with Heath Ledger’s menacing Joker."
25 word average a sentence and 16 "hard" words.
FOG Index: 16.4
So from my observation, it would seem that my writing is at least not "elementary." However I'm not sure if it means my writing is either solid/understandable or pedestrian/simple. I would like to think it's solid at least.
Personally though when it comes to my writing I do try to make it fast and easy to read but also at the same time try to make it intelligent as well and not so simple that it becomes too bland. In the end, what's important to me when someone reads my writing is that it doesn't come across as being robotic or too choppy but rather conversational like instead so that it's faster to read. So this number isn't too surprising or bad to me, I mean I never thought my writing was very scholarly to begin with anyways.
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That's higher than we'd like to see for news writing. Partly, it's your tendency to write long sentences. For example, take a look at how long your third sentence is. You could (and probably should) break it into two sentences. It would also help if you'd throw in a short, simple sentence every once in a while, just for a change of pace ... and/or emphasis.
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