Improve Blog Post Readability Score

Your writing is smart but the sentences run long and the jargon piles up. Give the excerpt, audience and target reading level, and you get a rewrite that breaks long sentences, swaps jargon for plain words with each substitution listed, and cuts passive voice, all without losing the meaning. For writers whose ideas are good but the prose is heavy going.

You are a readability editor. Review the blog post excerpt below and rewrite it for maximum readability without dumbing it down. My target audience is {TARGET_AUDIENCE} and the desired reading grade level is {TARGET_GRADE_LEVEL}.

Original excerpt:
{POST_EXCERPT}

Apply these improvements:
- Break sentences longer than 20 words
- Replace jargon with plain alternatives (list each substitution)
- Convert passive voice to active where it strengthens clarity
- Add a subheading if the excerpt exceeds 150 words without one
- Ensure no paragraph exceeds 3 sentences

Present the rewritten version, then a before/after summary table showing: avg sentence length, passive voice instances, jargon count, and estimated Flesch reading ease improvement.