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 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 author and lecturer are both talking about the consequences of the television appearance of professor. The author believes there are lots of benefits when the professor appear on televisions. The lecturer challenges the statement made by the author. He is of the opinion that there are lots of disadvantages when professor appears on the television programs.
Firstly, The author suggests that when professor appears on television shows, other people also get aware of the professor's idea on which research actually the professor is working and how are their results beneficial for the people. It is mentioned that this will also create an environment for the professor to make himself known renown to the world. The lecturer repudiated this argument by saying that people watching television are actually looking for entertainment, not for academic things. Furthermore, he argues that the one who went to deliver the presentation is not a professor and they also don't get good money.
Secondly, the author contends that it will be more beneficial for the university's point of view that when a professor do such shows will make a good environment for the increasing reputation of the university. The article notes that there will be an increase in the donation and as well as the increased number of applications of best students. The lecturer, however, rebut this by asserting that it will not increase the reputation rather it will hamper the research of the professor as well as to the university since professor has to travel long, prepare for the presentation, prepare for it, make up for good looking as these all things require a lots of time to cover which will hamper the professor as he will not give much time to research work and that will be devastating.
Finally, it is stated in the article that such type of show will increase the chance of viewers to learn such things which wouldn't have to happen in any case. He establishes this by saying that viewers have no contact with the professor but through these types of a show they can know a lot of different types of research work. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that this will not happen as the person watching television are not intellectual and they will not have a focus on these academic things because these things are serious and it wouldn't happen with the viewers. He puts forth the idea that the professor has to give information in short as brief information which will not be going to increase the knowledge of any listener.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 197, 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.
...en the professor appear on televisions. The lecturer challenges the statement made ...
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Line 3, column 114, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...ows, other people also get aware of the professors idea on which research actually the pro...
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Line 3, column 605, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...tation is not a professor and they also dont get good money. Secondly, the author ...
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Line 5, column 328, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'of the best'.
Suggestion: of the best
...as the increased number of applications of best students. The lecturer, however, rebut ...
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Line 5, column 650, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a lot' or simply 'lots'?
Suggestion: a lot; lots
...ood looking as these all things require a lots of time to cover which will hamper the ...
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Line 7, column 124, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...e of viewers to learn such things which wouldnt have to happen in any case. He establis...
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Line 7, column 546, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...because these things are serious and it wouldnt happen with the viewers. He puts forth ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, well, as to, in short, talking about, as well as, in any case, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2092.0 1373.03311258 152% => OK
No of words: 428.0 270.72406181 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88785046729 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72895896009 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.415887850467 0.540411800872 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 648.0 419.366225166 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.1474522226 49.2860985944 179% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.466666667 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5333333333 21.698381199 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.0 7.06452816374 170% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140929940465 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0589435723842 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0347352589111 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0941177553081 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0351001731875 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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