Measurement Type | Narrative Text | Informational Text |
Qualitative |
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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 |
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Flesch-Kincaid grade-level* | 9.5 | 9.0 |
ATOS grade-level | 9.0 | 9.1 |
Coh-Metrix Readability measures: |
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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) |