book reading declining
The provided material are concerned with reading far less literature by people especially young people. The author states that reading fewer books not only has unfortunate effects on culture but also can danger the future of literature. In contrast, the lecturer repudiates this point through several counterarguments that are as follows.
Initially, the author says that the intellectual stimulation which provides by reading books can not replace by anything. If people read less literature, they can not exercise their imagination. However, the lecturer explains that reading less literature does not mean reading fewer books. People can read some high-quality books such as science books that can be creative as novels.
Second, the writer thinks that people read less important books that have not benefits for them. They watch tv or read a Web page instead of reading challenging books. Yet again, the speaker underscores that nowadays the only way to challenge yourself and follow the creative things is not reading literature. There are some movies, tv programs and music videos that are really good and can people to improve their imagination and expand their understanding of language.
The final point is contention between the article and lecture is writing declining. The author says that if people read less literature, the writing, as well as the reading will decline soon. On the other hand, the speaker explains that the new writers who write modern literature, write in a difficult way and people hardly understand them. In fact, the author should not blame the readers instead of the writers.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 289, 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".
...ters who write modern literature, write in a difficult way and people hardly understand them. In f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, really, second, so, well, in contrast, in fact, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1370.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33073929961 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67539085761 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544747081712 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.6585530271 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.3333333333 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1333333333 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.373057618437 0.272083759551 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126696352 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106597444032 0.0662205650399 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22153396287 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0728826169453 0.0443174109184 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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