The reading and the lecture are about the declination of the reading, mainly in literature and has some bad effects in the public. While the article give some arguments which support that, the lecturer refutes this saying that there are only some cultural changes.
To begin, the passage mentions that the literature help intellectually to the public like no other do. On the contrary, the professor states that there are other type of books that have benefits to the intellectual stimulation. Books about science or politics have a high cultural quality.
In addition, the author mentions that people is wasting their time doing activities and missing the benefits of literature. For example, watching television or music videos. On the contrary, the lecturer argues that culture has changed. Besides, she explains that there are music or novels that have level of culture.
To conclude, the passage suggests that there are good literature writers nowadays, but they do not have an audience. The professor is against this and says that the reading of literature is difficult to understand and it is author's fault.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, if, so, while, for example, in addition, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 943.0 1373.03311258 69% => OK
No of words: 181.0 270.72406181 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20994475138 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66791821706 4.04702891845 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64498398764 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 145.348785872 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.574585635359 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 299.7 419.366225166 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.7885107365 49.2860985944 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.7272727273 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4545454545 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36363636364 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269012766252 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0930635880545 0.0996497079465 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.070483487303 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15322814687 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519781563273 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.