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Title: Want to Be a Bullfighter?

Author: Lanza, Sheri R Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Searcher: Magazine/Database Prof, v13 n6 p8(4) Publication Date: Jun 2005
  ISSN: 1070-4795
  Illustrations: Screen Layouts, Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher

Business Idiots Bullfighter is a tool meant to help people write more clearly and succinctly by removing the excess verbiage from writing. When a document has been written, it can be run through Bullfighter, which generates a Bull Index and suggestions as to what should but taken out of the document and where it is in the document. Bullfighter can be downloaded at fightthebull.com/bullfighter.asp. After installation, Bullfighter shows up as a small toolbar in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Bullfighter has its own jargon database, which is used to score documents, and users can also add their own Bull Words to the database. The Flesh Reading Ease formula is also used by Bullfighter and is described. A Bull Composite of Index of 7.4, for instance, would indicate that a document is three-fourths of the way to excellent. A Diagnosis done by Bullfighter might indicate acceptable or unacceptable use of standard words to explain concepts, clarity and comprehensibility, acceptability or unacceptability of sentence length, and the ability to get to the point (or not). When a tester deleted all Bull terms from an article (to see how the scores would change), the Bull Index rose to 100, even though the omissions created some sentence fragments.

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Business Idiots LLC

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Bullfighter

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