How To Write Good Posts That Are Readable? [Test Readability In MS Word]

Writing good content helpful for people is the key factor for a blog to become famous. However, apart from that there are many other factors, which influence the popularity of a blog. One such factor is readability of a post. Today, in this post, I am going to share few tips that would be helpful for any blogger.

BTW, What exactly is readability?

Readability of a post, in a layman’s language, is how well can a post or an article be understood by others. However, if you go deeper you will find that readability of an article is calculated based on different factors in an article. Flesch-Kincaid Readability is a method of finding out the percentage of readability of a paragraph.

According to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability formula mentioned in the Wikipedia, scores of the articles are calculated. Here is a table that will tell you the range of scores you must try to achieve depending on your audience.

90-100: Very Easy
80-89: Easy
70-79: Fairly Easy
60-69: Standard
50-59: Fairly Difficult
30-49: Difficult
0-29: Very Confusing

As the topic under discussion here is blogging, it would be ideal to get a score of readability between 60-70, as most blog readers are neither professionals in English nor too weak.

Now after defining, the score you want your posts to have, it is time to concentrate on achieving it.

How To Test The Readability Of A Post?

This important question is worth answering here. After knowing so much about the need of maintaining readability of a post, there is a need to implement them in your writings.

Coming to the tool, MS word is itself a best tool for checking the readability of a post. It actually tests the Flesch-Kincaid Readability I had discussed. Here is a brief tutorial to enable that option:

• Go to MS Word 2007, Click on the review tab.
• Click the Spelling & Grammar option.
• Click on the Options in the opened dialog box.
• Check the Readability statistics option.

After this, you would be getting the readability statistics in the percentage. Try to maintain the percentage between 60 and 70 as I had said above.

Tips To Increase The Readability

• Try to keep your sentences brief and easily readable to others.
• Do not combine too many sentences and make it a single sentence. At the maximum, combine two sentences with all the required punctuations at the correct places.
• Use the punctuation marks at the proper places, so that they are easy to read for your readers.
• Try to avoid as many miss-spells as possible.
• Use blog writers such as Windows Live Writer and Word, so that it would be easy to do spell check etc.