Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in the world. These television appearances are of great benefit to the professors themselves as well as to their universities and the general public.
Professors benefit from appearing on television because by doing so they acquire reputations as authorities in their academic fields among a much wider audience than they have on campus. If a professor publishes views in an academic journal, only other scholars will learn about and appreciate those views. But when a professor appears on TV, thousands of people outside the narrow academic community become aware of the professor’s ideas. So when professors share their ideas with a television audience, the professors’ importance as scholars is enhanced. Universities also benefit from such appearances.
The universities receive positive publicity when their professors appear on TV. When people see a knowledgeable faculty member of a university on television, they think more highly of that university. That then leads to an improved reputation for the university. And that improved reputation in turn leads to more donations for the university and more applications from potential students.
Finally, the public gains from professors’ appearing on television. Most television viewers normally have no contact with university professors. When professors appear on television, viewers have a chance to learn from experts and to be exposed to views they might otherwise never hear about. Television is generally a medium for commentary that tends to be superficial, not deep or thoughtful. From professors on television, by contrast, viewers get a taste of real expertise and insight.
The article and the lecture are both about professors who appear as guests on TV news programs in order to give professional comment on the latest event in the world. The author of the passage believes that benefits have not only professors, but also their universities and the public. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article.
First of all, the author points that if a professor appears on television, it can be as a sign of acquiring his reputation and importance in his academic fields. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She says that sharing opinions on television is not good for this professor because some people begin think that he does not a serious scholar as he has time for appearing on TV.
Secondly, as for benefits for universities the author of the article mentions that such professors can improve a reputation of the university and it will lead to more donations for the university and more applications from future students. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She suggests that appearing on TV, professors spend a lot of time for preparing, commuting and presenting the information. So they do not have much lectures due to lack of time, that is why it bad for universities.
Finally, the author states that public has opportunity to get a taste of real expertise and insight from professors. However, the lecturer posits that the professor's information which people watch on TV is not serious because TV companies are interested in excellent title, but not in lectures, so the TV reporters are able to give us same comments.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...argument. She says that sharing opinions on television is not good for this profe...
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Suggestion: many
...ng the information. So they do not have much lectures due to lack of time, that is w...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
.... However, the lecturer posits that the professors information which people watch on TV is...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, as for, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91821561338 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84753996492 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553903345725 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 412.2 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.4495388312 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.25 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4166666667 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238239861241 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0761615345332 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0584825808333 0.0662205650399 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139396768305 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741685502884 0.0443174109184 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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