Aaron Stolz wrote:

At 03:20 PM 5/20/96 -0700, you wrote:

Can anyone tell me what those reading grades levels mean whenever you 
finished the grammar and spell check on MS Word 6.0 for Windows? Is the 
higher you go mean you are a better writer?

It means that if you get a bad score, you should take some english classes,
geh...It's a GRADE, just like you said...I honestly don't know why anyone
would have to ask...no offence to you, I really don't....

I don't think he was refering to a letter grade as in an evaluation of
how well you do.  Word's grammar check gives a number to reprent what
grade level (ie 1st grade, 7th grade, etc.) would be able to understand.
The theory is that unless you want your writing to be obscure (you're a
lawyer) you keep the grade level as low as possible.  Of course, that's
for business writing.  I don't think it really means much for prose,
where you use language much more creatively.

Joshua Rowan
gt4304b@prism.gatech.edu