The passage and the lecture are mainly about the decline of young people’s literature reading as well as its influence. According to the passage, such a decline produce negative effects in many respects; however, the professor does not believe so.
The author suggests that readers are missing out on important benefits of reading since they read less literature, and that is because literature can produce the intellectual stimulation that other materials cannot. Nevertheless, the professor argues that literature is not the only intellectually stimulating material. Although today’s readers read less novel and plays, they can read other intellectually stimulating materials like science writing, history and political analysis, so they will not miss out on the benefits of reading.
The passage indicates that culture today is in decline, for people are more likely to spend their time in trivial forms of entertainment instead of reading challenging literature. On the contrary, the professor points out that there are many forms of culturally valuable expression today available other than literature, such as music and movies, and they even better reflect current concerns than novels or plays, so it is an exaggeration to say the level of culture has been lowered.
The author presents that the trend of reading less literature is going to harm literature itself, because serious writers who lack audience will no longer have support from publishers even though they create good works. On the other hand, the professor claims that today’s literature gets less support from readers because some writers make their works hard to understand on propose and such works not be easily accepted, even by the earlier generations of readers. Thus, it is actually authors instead of readers who should be blamed for this decline in literature reading.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, nevertheless, so, thus, well, such as, as well as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1585.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46551724138 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83726057359 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551724137931 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.6149363538 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.5 110.228320801 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 21.698381199 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4 7.06452816374 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.475343492979 0.272083759551 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.192277020576 0.0996497079465 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816323541686 0.0662205650399 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269685114627 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.056478934928 0.0443174109184 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.3589403974 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 53.8541721854 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.04 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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