Measurement Type

Narrative Text

Informational Text

Qualitative

Levels of meaning

Single level

Explicit

Structure

Conventional structure

Structure is less conventional; events related in chronological order; chiefly informational content

Language conventionality and clarity

Literal, clear

General academic and domain specific

Knowledge demands

Single theme; different from reader’s background

Some experience with genre conventions required; low intertextuality―no references to other texts

Quantitative

Flesch-Kincaid grade-level*

9.5

9.0

ATOS grade-level

9.0

9.1

Coh-Metrix Readability measures:

Narrativity

83% (High)

22% (Low)

Syntactic simplicity

2% (Simple)

79% (Representative of informational text)

Use of concrete words

90% (Liberal use)

50% (Evenly split with abstract words)

Sentence cohesion

76% (High cohesion)

24% (Low cohesion)

Deep cohesion

64% (Moderately good cohesion)

81% (High cohesion)