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 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 43.0788530466 46% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 52.1666666667 63% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1585.0 1977.66487455 80% => OK
No of words: 290.0 407.700716846 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46551724138 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83726057359 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 212.727598566 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.551724137931 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 618.680645161 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 9.59856630824 21% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 20.6003584229 49% => 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 20.1344086022 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.6149363538 48.9658058833 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.5 100.406767564 158% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 20.6045352989 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4 5.45110844103 191% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => 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: 0.0545651535712 0.236089414692 23% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0229937623608 0.076458572812 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0181234224453 0.0737576698707 25% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0347030800753 0.150856017488 23% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0132434761237 0.0645574589148 21% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 11.7677419355 160% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 58.1214874552 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 10.1575268817 156% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.04 10.9000537634 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 86.8835125448 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.0537634409 135% => 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.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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