Question : Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
A recent study reveals that people especially young people are reading far less literature—novels, plays, and poems—than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for the future of literature itself.
While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So by reading less literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits.
Unfortunately, missing out on the benefits of literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead? Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best sellers. These are usually superficial poorly written, and intellectually undemanding. Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general.
The trend of reading less literature is all the more regrettable because it is taking place during a period when good literature is being written. There are many talented writers today, but they lack an audience. This fact is bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. Thus, the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today's readers.
The Reading and the Lecturer are both about new trend of reading less number of literature. The author the reading feels that this trnd might be troublesome beacuse of three possible reason.The Lecturer challenges the claim made by the author.He is of the opinion that te explanation which the writer provides isn't convincing.
To begin with, the author argues that literature has some uncomparable intellectual quality.The article mentions that people may lack of important benefit bacuse of their low rate of predelection regarding literature. This specefic argument is challenged by the Lecturer.He claims that not only literature some other writings like Science,Political genre can also has intellectual stimulation.Additionally, reading other than novel, plays or poem stimulates human imagination.
Secondly, the Writer suggests that people are practicing self help related book instead of literature which poorly written.In the article, it is also mentions that watching television, listening music diverting ourself into some unintecually demanding activities.The lecturer however disputed this by acknowleding that movies or music has plenty of culyturaly important evaluation.He elaborates on this bringing up the point new generations interest to non literature activites is due to the change of culture.
Finally, the author posits that due too the less reader the funding situation also deteorates in literature.Moreover, in the article it is stated talated writer today cannot show their skill because of lack of audience.In contrast, the Lecturer position is that reader isn't responsile for low level publishers.He notes that modern writer predelection toward the enigmatic literature influnces lower level of audience which is resulted by publishers unwillingness to invest in literature.
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... level of audience which is resulted by publishers unwillingness to invest in literature.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.90114068441 5.08290768461 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.42019806072 2.5805825403 133% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608365019011 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.55342163355 122% => 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: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => 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: 43.0 21.2450331126 202% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 150.628313703 49.2860985944 306% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 258.666666667 110.228320801 235% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 43.8333333333 21.698381199 202% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 16.3333333333 7.06452816374 231% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 18.0 4.19205298013 429% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => 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: 0.182642291502 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0954217553425 0.0996497079465 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415071756119 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105729377037 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054745093929 0.0443174109184 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 28.3 13.3589403974 212% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 2.45 53.8541721854 5% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 15.9 5.55761589404 286% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 23.6 11.0289183223 214% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 17.83 12.2367328918 146% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.87 8.42419426049 129% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 19.2 10.498013245 183% => OK
text_standard: 24.0 11.2008830022 214% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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