Table I.

Sentence and Document Characteristics

SENTENCES
Lexical Simplification:	Original (N = 8)		Simplified (N = 8)
Word Count (Avg.)	24		32
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (Avg.)	17.3		17.1
DOCUMENTS
Coherence:	Original		Enhanced
Lexical Simplification:	Original (N=2)	Simplified (N=2)	Original (N=2)	Simplified (N=2)
Word Count (Avg.)	231	264	234	262
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (Avg.)	21	21	18	16
Cloze Measure:
All Blanks Count (Avg.)	33	37	33	36
Content Word Blanks Count (Avg.)	20	23	20	22
Function Word Blanks Count (Avg.)	13	14	13	14