This book describes Coh-Metrix, a computational tool that provides a wide range of language and discourse measures. It is a linguistic workbench that researchers, teachers, and students of many different disciplines can use to obtain information about their texts on numerous levels of language. This book consists of two parts. The first section focuses on the theoretical motivations and perspectives that led to the development of Coh-Metrix. Part I describes its technological foundations, the measures it provides, and empirical work that has been conducted using Coh-Metrix. We see Part I as being invaluable to researchers who wish to situate their Coh-Metrix work within the theoretical and empirical fields of discourse processing, psycholinguistics, text design, and related fields.

Part II shifts to the practical and pedagogical arena, describing how to use Coh-Metrix and how to analyze, interpret, and describe Coh-Metrix results. This section is written for computational novices and students who wish to not only use Coh-Metrix (or similar computational tools), but also describe the resulting studies and their outcomes.