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 states that professors are usually found in university classrooms, offices and libraries, but they are often seen as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in the world. The article claims that this benefits not only the professors but also universities and the general public and provides reasons for support. The professor in the lecture refutes this claim and each of its reasons.
First, the professor in the lecture states that professor appearing on TV news program may not be good for professor. She mentions that their appearance seems good as they acquire reputation as authorities among colleagues and public but television programs are just means of entertainment rather than educational. Another drawback is that performing such publicity activities may result in professors not getting any research fundings later which affects a professor's academic work.
Second, the professor from the lecture mentions that in order to appear on television, professors waste a lot of time which might affect professors as well as universities. Professors might end up spending time on futile thing such as travelling, presentation, rehearsal and dressing up for the TV program. Instead, the professors can utilise this time for research and university meetings.
Finally, the professor states that general public might not benefit from the news show. She agrees that the professors might have a plethora of knowledge but TV shows might be interested on going in depth on the academic concepts on television. Also, people might not want to watch such academic explanations after their dinner. The professor thinks that a professor might not be able to deliver depth or analysis of content similar to which an actual news reporter might be.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 318, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...rofessors but also universities and the general public and provides reasons for support. The p...
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Line 1, column 367, 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.
...ublic and provides reasons for support. The professor in the lecture refutes this c...
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Line 5, column 457, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a professor' or simply 'professors'?
Suggestion: a professor; professors
...y research fundings later which affects a professors academic work. Second, the profess...
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Line 13, column 36, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... Finally, the professor states that general public might not benefit from the news show. S...
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Line 13, column 188, Rule ID: ON_GOING[1]
Message: Did you mean 'ongoing'?
Suggestion: ongoing
...wledge but TV shows might be interested on going in depth on the academic concepts on te...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, may, second, so, well, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1525.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38869257951 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82097887479 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537102473498 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 419.366225166 108% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2843743052 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.307692308 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.30769230769 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.250270291598 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0996374341798 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0899375702433 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165870633403 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0901509722453 0.0443174109184 203% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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