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 passage introduced three reasons why professors should appear on tv: gaining rep- utation for the professor, for the college, and to educate the general public. However, the lecture disagrees.
professors who appear frequently on tv are not generally viewed as a serious scholar. As a result, those professors will receive less invitation to attend academic conferences or less likely to receive research grant. this seriously hinders the professor’s opportunity to further grow as a researcher
professors who frequently appear on tv also has negative effect on students and the university. appearing on tv takes a lot of time to prepare, including preperation for the material, transportation time, and even time to dress up. this precious time can also be used to teach class, help students, or even do further research. As a result, professors who appear on tv waste a lot of time that they can contribute to teaching and research.
professors appearing on tv doesn’t usually help educating the general public. The tv network is not interested in having the professor explaining the intellectual substances of their researches. Rather, they are interested in having them explain some basic back- ground information or history. this type of information can be easily presented by a seri-
ous reporter who has done his work properly.
Because of the above reasons, it is highly questionable whether professors appearing
on tv has any advantage. In fact, it could bring negative consequence both to the professors themselves and the universities they teach.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, so, in fact, as a result
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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1345.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42338709677 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06536225586 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576612903226 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 408.6 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.704855898 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0714285714 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7142857143 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 7.06452816374 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.09492273731 171% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.165274031997 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0652231973408 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0364071084892 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0749020955534 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352543682294 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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