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 both deal with if the professors will benefit from being on TV. The author states that the professors and the universities both benefit from being on TV, and he points out that professors will gain a good reputation and enhance their importance. However, the speaker states that appearance indicates that the professors are not serious and not showing important things, but they entertain.
In the reading passage, the writer adds that universities will get benefits also by increasing the number of applicants who want to apply to the universities. Furthermore, the author adds that the public will gain more information and taste the real expertise. On the other hand, the lecturer says that professors will not show academic information in-depth, but they will make a brief for such information, which is similar to what is presented by a TV reporter. Therefore, the public will not get significant benefits.
The lecturer adds that professors' appearance on TV will negatively affect their contribution to the important conference. Moreover, the time-consuming in preparing the TV show's content and the travel time will be more beneficial if the professors spend it doing research or studying with the students.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 451, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ich is similar to what is presented by a TV reporter. Therefore, the public will ...
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Line 5, column 24, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...nt benefits. The lecturer adds that professors appearance on TV will negatively affect...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1050.0 1373.03311258 76% => OK
No of words: 199.0 270.72406181 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27638190955 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75589349951 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97890362743 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 145.348785872 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552763819095 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 311.4 419.366225166 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6581500574 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.666666667 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1111111111 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.77777777778 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => 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: 0.15721042029 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713661884845 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0347776740046 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117636566149 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316151534656 0.0443174109184 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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