Posted on 06/13/2011 1:18:52 PM PDT by NoLibZone
The huge cache of Sarah Palin's emails released Friday offered not only a chance to see what she was writing about during her uncompleted term as Alaska's governor, but also an opportunity to see how well she writes.
AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who independently evaluated 24,000 pages of the former governor's emails. They came back in agreement that Palin composed her messages at an eighth-grade level, an excellent score for a chief executive, they said.
"I'm a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate," said 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.
"However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.
"If she were a student and showing me her work, I'd say 'It's fine, clear writing,'" he said, admitting that emails he wrote scored lower than Palin's on the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.
"She came in as a solid communicator," said Paul J.J. Payack, president of the Global Language Monitor. The emails registered as an 8.2 on his version of the test. "That's typical for a corporate executive."
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How about Obama w/out a teleprompter?
Barely coherent
Emails are information not literature you dolt!
I bet she knows what year it is!
And they can no longer count Obama’s books since almost everyone knows he didn’t write them.
Writing at an eighth grade level which is really good for a CEO.
This is the definition of a back-handed compliment in the leftie world!
1. Are CEO’s really only averaging an 8th grade writing level?
2. If Palin is BETTER than this, then why is this bad?
3. Do people really try to have perfect grammar and such in emails? I usually don’t, but I admit I get lazy.
“Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. “
BTW LeBron has 6 toes.
Without his electronic primer he's a bumbling, stumbling idiot, isn't he?
Those drug flashbacks of his are a wonder to behold.
It’s very important to write at a level that the ‘average’ person can understand.
That’s usually 8th or 9th grade.
This just proves she knows who her ‘audience’ is..
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Yeah, we are all freaking Shakespeares typing with our thumbs on a Blackberry.
What utter scandalous horsecrap....
I thought they were going to complain they couldn’t understand all of the big words.
Well said!! Applying a test designed for formal writing to e-mail content is an exercise in stupidity and onanism simultaneously.
How many Phd’s write at an 8th grade level?
The reason that the 8th Grade Level is good for a CEO is that the purpose of communication is to clearly get your point across to the reader. 8th Grade Level is still talking over the heads of a large number of readers. If someone were to write at a college level most workers would not be able to decipher the meaning. That would fail the objective of communication.
If you’re the boss and you want something done or want yo convey an idea clearly, keep it simple. She seems to understand that whereas Obie just rambles on and on.
Sorry, Johnny! You lose.
According to an idiot with a book to sell he didn’t write ONE of his books (”Dreams from my Father”).
It used to be that “everyone knows” there was a travel ban on Pakistan also.
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