online encyclopedia
The article and the lecture focus on using a communal online encyclopedia. The author points out three main disadvantages of such kind of encyclopedia compared with the traditional ones. The lecturer, however, rebuts claims made in the article. He thinks that there are certain benefits of the communal online encyclopedia.
The author begins by stating that, as community members do not have deep knowledge about the subject or are not recognized in a scientific society, the information in the communal online encyclopedia may be inaccurate. The lecturer admits that it may be the case, but traditional encyclopedias contain errors too. Moreover, it takes years to fix these errors. On the other hand, online version mistakes could be corrected faster.
Secondly, in the article, it is stated that the online encyclopedia could be used by dishonest people to manipulate information. The lecturer mentions that there are mechanisms that prevent these activities. He delves deeper and provides examples of these mechanisms. The first one is the ability to specify some articles as read-only, and the second one is to hire staff for checking changes and deleting inappropriate content.
Finally, another issue associated with the online encyclopedia is that it focuses on popular topics and can mislead readers what is really important. The lecture challenges this specific argument by asking the rhetorical question: "Who should decide what is really important?". He suggests that the diversity of material is definitely a positive aspect of the online encyclopedia. Additionally, the online version compared with the paper one has no limits of space.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 188, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...dia compared with the traditional ones. The lecturer, however, rebuts claims made i...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50194552529 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06716983107 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599221789883 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.3983653275 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.375 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0625 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.461081805421 0.272083759551 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155266760258 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.148830237425 0.0662205650399 225% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.289671904798 0.162205337803 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0966647444666 0.0443174109184 218% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 53.8541721854 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.32 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.78 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 188, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...dia compared with the traditional ones. The lecturer, however, rebuts claims made i...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50194552529 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06716983107 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599221789883 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.3983653275 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.375 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0625 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.461081805421 0.272083759551 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155266760258 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.148830237425 0.0662205650399 225% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.289671904798 0.162205337803 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0966647444666 0.0443174109184 218% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 53.8541721854 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.32 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.78 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.