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.
<p style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(67, 74, 84); white-space: normal;"> The reading and the lecture are both about the value of television appearances by university professors. The author of the reading argues that it is very worthwhile for academics to make such appearances. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He believes that these appearances are not particularly useful.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(67, 74, 84); white-space: normal;"> First of all, the author claims that by appearing on television, university professors can broaden their audience and will be viewed as experts in their subjects by more people than ever before. The author believes that this can increase their importance as academic professionals. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that professors who go on television are viewed by their peers as entertainers rather than as true academics. The lecturer claims that because of this problem, being a celebrity could even affect their ability to get funding for their work.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(67, 74, 84); white-space: normal;"> Secondly, the author states that television appearances can be beneficial for the universities themselves. It is argued that the prestige of the university is increased when one of their faculty makes a high profile media appearance. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that universities can suffer because celebrity professors do not have much time for their research and students. He argues that rather than carrying out their duties, they spend a lot of time rehearsing, traveling and getting made-up for their appearances.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(67, 74, 84); white-space: normal;"> Finally, the author mentions that there is a net benefit to the public when a professor appears in the media. It is suggested that television is usually quite shallow and that professors can provide a very useful remedy to this problem. The lecturer, on the other hand, feels that television networks do not want to present meaningful content. He says that the abbreviated presentations that professors give on television are no more useful than what a regular reporter could deliver.</p>
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, while, first of all, 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: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3120.0 1373.03311258 227% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 421.0 270.72406181 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 7.4109263658 5.08290768461 146% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 9.03304960285 2.5805825403 350% => Word_Length_SD is high.
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441805225653 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 774.9 419.366225166 185% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 13.0662251656 8% => 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: 421.0 21.2450331126 1982% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.2860985944 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 3120.0 110.228320801 2830% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 421.0 21.698381199 1940% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 85.0 7.06452816374 1203% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0654241099896 0.272083759551 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0654241099896 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0654241099896 0.162205337803 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => 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: 224.0 13.3589403974 1677% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -372.76 53.8541721854 -692% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 5.55761589404 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 169.8 11.0289183223 1540% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 27.18 12.2367328918 222% => Coleman_liau_index is high.
dale_chall_readability_score: 28.27 8.42419426049 336% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 69.0 10.7273730684 643% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 170.4 10.498013245 1623% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 170.0 11.2008830022 1518% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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