Re: [school-discuss] style and diction

[jeff williams <cfiaime@cfiaime.com>]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 10:19 pm, Dennis Daniels wrote:
> Hi Jeff at et. al.,
>
> The response to this application in the class has been amazing. Some of
> my students took on the task of reaching my somewhat arbitrary goals of
> 1.5 syllables per word
> Kincaid score of 10
> 25 sentences
> 5 paragraphs
> with some gusto. I've never had students stay after school to hone a
> paper but that's exactly what's been happening! They are using it like a
> video game! They keep changing words around to get 'a higher score'! Of
> course, there are those that abuse it and switch words around using the
> thesaurus... my favorite, almost non-sensical, phrase so far has been
> 'untainted aptitude' for perfect skill. :)

Hi Dennis,

With the scores you are looking for, it makes me wonder about my own writing!  
Ah, well.  I recall you are in a k12 lab.  What grade level do you teach?
-- 
jeff williams - cfiaime@cfiaime.com
                cfiaime@nconnect.net (going away soon)
                jeff.williams@cuw.edu
                jbw7799@ksu.edu