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, television appearances of professor are of great benefit to professors themselves, their university and the general public. However, the professor explains that this is not the case at all and refutes each reason presented by author in the reading passage.
Firstly, the reading passage claims, professor gain a lot of reputation from the TV appearances because they have wider audiences. However, professor says, these appearances hurt the reputation of professors. She states that when professor appears on a TV then his colleagues consider him as more of a entertainer than researcher. Due to this professor are not invited to important conferences and sometimes not given the necessary funding for research.
Secondly, the article posits, universities are also benefited from these appearances. The professor refutes this point by saying, despite the publicity, universities are at loss. She explains that a lot of time gets wasted due to this because professor needs to prepare, travel, and even look good for the show. This time could have been utilized better by doing research and guiding the students.
Thirdly, the reading passage states, the general public is benefited by the appearance because they get deep insights about a topic from an expert. The professor opposes this point by explaining that those TV program does not require deep knowledge about the field, but rather a superficial description of the title only. She explains that this type of superficial explanation can be given by a reporter who has done the homework.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 129, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...rs themselves, their university and the general public. However, the professor explains that t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 301, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... his colleagues consider him as more of a entertainer than researcher. Due to thi...
^
Line 7, column 42, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...hirdly, the reading passage states, the general public is benefited by the appearance because ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 201, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this TV' or ''?
Suggestion: this TV;
...r opposes this point by explaining that those TV program does not require deep knowledge...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, look, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1328.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35483870968 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85474758375 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568548387097 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.279183385 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.153846154 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0769230769 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46153846154 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173601127034 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0652098649821 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418075484122 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109000469754 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0319131700521 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 129, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...rs themselves, their university and the general public. However, the professor explains that t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 301, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... his colleagues consider him as more of a entertainer than researcher. Due to thi...
^
Line 7, column 42, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...hirdly, the reading passage states, the general public is benefited by the appearance because ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 201, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this TV' or ''?
Suggestion: this TV;
...r opposes this point by explaining that those TV program does not require deep knowledge...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, look, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1328.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35483870968 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85474758375 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568548387097 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.279183385 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.153846154 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0769230769 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46153846154 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173601127034 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0652098649821 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418075484122 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109000469754 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0319131700521 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.