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 lecture and the reading provide two opposing views in regard to the consequences of university professors attending as guests on television programs. On the one hand, the reading states that it would benefit the public, the university, and the professor, personally, but on the other hand, the lecture provides contrasting opinions - by looking into this in another perspective.

First of all, the reading provides the benefits for the professor by appearing on the TV - appreciation, and enhancement of their importance. However, the professor in the lecture claims that these professors could lose their reputation among fellow professors by appearing on TV. Moreover, the portray themselves as if they are entertaining the public rather than educating them. So, these professors might face negative effects - not being invited to the meetings and not being granted money for research.

What's more, the narrator's notion that the students and university gains from the professors' appearance on the television are false, as per the lecture. Professors need to spend a lot of time for preparation of the content, rehearsing, commuting and getting ready to appear on the TV. If this time was spent by doing research and spending with the students, it could be beneficial according to the lecture. Hence, the opinion stated in the reading - this helps in improving the reputation of the university and the students - is countered in the lecture.

Finally, while the reading states that these programs could be beneficial to the viewers as they could get the sense of "real" knowledge, the professor counters this argument that TV programs do not want to share the entire, in-depth knowledge. They only discuss titles and overview of the content and this would also be given by a TV reporter with some practice. Therefore, in the professor's eyes, these programs are not beneficial to the public as well.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 292, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...rofessors by appearing on TV. Moreover, the portray themselves as if they are entertaining ...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: What's
...being granted money for research. Whats more, the narrators notion that the stu...
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Line 6, column 17, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'narrators'' or 'narrator's'?
Suggestion: narrators'; narrator's
...ney for research. Whats more, the narrators notion that the students and university...
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Line 6, column 82, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
... students and university gains from the professors appearance on the television are false,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, well, while, first of all, in regard to, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1614.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27450980392 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92042851654 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513071895425 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.0 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5662859812 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.153846154 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5384615385 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4615384615 7.06452816374 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213508765971 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0798513623232 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0568863501846 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12718934556 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0363974697515 0.0443174109184 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => 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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