A recent study reveals that people especially young people are reading far less literature,novels, plays, and poems, than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for the future of literature itself. While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So by reading less literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits. Unfortunately, missing out on the benefits of literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead? Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best sellers. These are usually superficial poorly written, and intellectually undemanding. Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general. The trend of reading less literature is all the more regrettable because it is taking place during a period when good literature is being written. There are many talented writers today, but theylack an audience. This fact is bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. Thus, the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today's readers.
The reading excerpt states that people are reading far less literature, novels, plays, and poem, this is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general and for the future of literature itself. The author provides three reasons for support. However, the lecture's audio claims that there are a lot of problems with the author theories and she refutes each of them.
First, the article avers that the decline of literature will affect the intellectual stimulation that literature dose as it encourages imagination. In contrast, the professor opposes this idea by stating that people may read books other than the literature books and also will improve their intellectual stimulation such as history or political science books which also enhance the imaginations. Consequently, this theory cannot support the author's belief.
Second, the passage posits that diverting time previously spent in literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general. On the other hand, the speaker argues this point by saying that do not read literature and books in general, this is not mean the literature is in decline because may enrich their mind with non-written sources such as movies or music, for example, listening to a brilliant sound, moreover, the culture changes and people may like to listen to speech directly. So, this point of view cannot champion the author's statement.
Third, the excerpt mentions that this fact bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. In contrary, the lecturer counteracts this theory and explains that it is maybe not the audience fault, but, the writer may write in a difficult way that is arduous for people to read. Thus, this outlook contradicts what the professor discussed.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 306, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lectures'' or 'lecture's'?
Suggestion: lectures'; lecture's
...three reasons for support. However, the lectures audio claims that there are a lot of pr...
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Line 2, column 443, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...quently, this theory cannot support the authors belief. Second, the passage posits ...
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Line 4, column 562, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... this point of view cannot champion the authors statement. Third, the excerpt menti...
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Line 6, column 267, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a difficult way" with adverb for "difficult"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...dience fault, but, the writer may write in a difficult way that is arduous for people to read. Thu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, third, thus, for example, in contrast, in general, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 15.1003584229 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 52.1666666667 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1548.0 1977.66487455 78% => OK
No of words: 294.0 407.700716846 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26530612245 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67023917299 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 212.727598566 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561224489796 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 466.2 618.680645161 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 11.0 3.08781362007 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.6003584229 58% => 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: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 90.8619221065 48.9658058833 186% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.0 100.406767564 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 20.6045352989 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.9166666667 5.45110844103 237% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338352481738 0.236089414692 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112870410158 0.076458572812 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.171052480039 0.0737576698707 232% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220357186815 0.150856017488 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.16461417422 0.0645574589148 255% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 11.7677419355 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 58.1214874552 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 10.9000537634 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.01818996416 114% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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