Geeze.
I write professionally. Anything I write for a newspaper is written at a sixth grade level. In my books I aim for an eigth-grade reading level.
Even in the technical papers I have written I try to keep it below a 12th-grade level, and most of that was dealing with stuff like space navigation.
It is not a sign of communications skills to express simple ideas in language only someone prepaping to enter college can understand. It is a sign of communication skill to express complex ideas in language a sixth-grader can understand.
I doubt that a speech that uses “I” or “me” something like 83 times is really written at a grade 12 language, if it were really analyzed.
Sarah Palin, from what I have read, tends to write at a grade 8 level, which is considered acceptable for communications at a CEO level of major companies.
"that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
well said
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address scores only a 10th “grade level” on the Flesch-Kincaid method and only a 7th “grade level” on the Coleman-Liau method, yet in those few words and with great clarity than anyone he communicated better than all the politicians of his day, and maybe since.
“It is not a sign of communications skills to express simple ideas in language only someone prepaping to enter college can understand. It is a sign of communication skill to express complex ideas in language a sixth-grader can understand.”
I occasionally author brochures for the public about environmental issues, and that is my understanding of the goal, also. When writing to, or addressing a general audience, the author should shoot for about a 6th grade level for their materials. Once again shows how “out of touch” and superficial the dems are by assuming that everyone listening to Michelle would care to decipher her speech, or somehow be impressed by its complexity. Also, if the media’s goal is to make Michelle seem like she is some sort of genius by touting this, they should remember that she most likely didn’t write the speech, only read it. I would hope that she can read at that level since she has an Ivy League education. If she couldn’t, I would recommend that she ask for her money back. Other than that, her speech reading level means nothing.
Exactly. Her inability or unwillingness to communicate to the widest audience possible fits very well with her self-created role as chief Nanny of the Nanny State. She doesn't respect the American People enough to communicate to them, just over them.