Reconstructs the discourse of the German youth and life-reform movement with regard to the attraction for the model of the "new" social movements that was developed for pedagogics. Shows that these cultural countermovements produced considerable enthusiasm by adhering to a program called "Social Reform through self-reform."…

Explains how education majors try to learn to recognize thought unit sentences (ThUS's) and to gauge their difficulty. Shows examples of simple writing and discusses the task of writing ThUS's to match style and level of author. Gives a rationale for doing a readability analysis in this way. (FL)