Glad you found it helpful. I also encourage you to try Count Wordsworth, http://countwordsworth.com It’s not as “pretty” as the Hemingway App but I feel it has a more balanced approach to sentence length. (It gives average sentence length as its second measure. I encourage you to work to an average of somewhere between 14 and 18 words.)

I found this very interesting, and used the suggested app on a piece of copy I wrote recently for an aviation website. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Amy. I do have one complaint about the Hemingway App and it’s that it treats EVERY long sentence as a “problem,” which is not true. As a result, I prefer to use another app first: https://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp

I work to get my sentence length average to somewhere between 14-18 words and once I’ve done that, I’ll run it through the Hemingway app and just ignore its comments about “too hard to read” sentences.

I also just started my blog if you would like to check it out. http://www.writetospark.com

Also, I’m guessing much of your READING has been research papers. This will also affect the amount of passive you produce.

Ha! Maybe this is why so much of my writing is passive voice. Much of my writing has been research papers.

Yes, I think it’s quite detached, mainly because the “actor” — the person performing the verb — is hidden.

Thanks for your clarification, Bruce. I feel better knowing that the New Yorker has also has a hard time correctly IDing passive. (Wish I could find that reference right now.)