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 th | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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 lecture and the reading are both about decline of reading literature. The author of the article feels that are three explanations for the decreasing in book reading. However, the lecture challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that these explanations are faulty.

To begin with, the author argues that only the literature provides the intellectual stimulation, because the writer believes that literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. Furthermore, the author suggests that the decreasing in book reading will cause for people lack of important benefits which are provide by literature. But, this specific argument is rejected by the lecture. She posits that are other manners to exercise our imagination and creativity by mentioning the sciences articles and political analyzes. Moreover, she states that these articles and analyzes have a high quality of reading and also provides benefits as the same form as literature.

Secondly, the writer posits that turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page are trivial forms of entertainment. In the article, it is said that these styles of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general. This specific argument is challenged by the lecture. She states that today we have other manners to get culture, such as music and movies. Additionally, she says that the expression of culture changed, as a result other forms of entertainment became more popular, but this not mean that the level of culture decreased.

Finally, the author suggests that the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today's readers. Also, the writer mention that there are many talented writers today, but they lack an audience. In contrast, the lecture said that these problem occur by the faulty of the authors. Additionally, she states that sometimes is very difficult to understand texts, because the form that many authors write. As a result, decline the today's readers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 379, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'provided'.
Suggestion: provided
...le lack of important benefits which are provide by literature. But, this specific argum...
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Line 7, column 285, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this problem' or 'these problems'?
Suggestion: this problem; these problems
...nce. In contrast, the lecture said that these problem occur by the faulty of the authors. Add...
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Line 7, column 468, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rm that many authors write. As a result, decline the todays readers.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, in contrast, in general, such as, as a result, as well as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1760.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 336.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2380952381 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84115068031 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494047619048 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 565.2 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.8680875095 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.6315789474 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6842105263 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.21052631579 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105670100532 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.035204312928 0.0996497079465 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433955176212 0.0662205650399 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0696064252366 0.162205337803 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0351791788257 0.0443174109184 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => 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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Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, in contrast, in general, such as, as a result, as well as, to begin with

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