The reading and the lecture are both about the decrease of literature readers.
The author of the reading believes that the reading public is reducing, especially among young people, which is an important loss for culture in general, and for the future of literature itself.
The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article.
She thinks that, there are reasons behind why it is often said that people are reading less than they used to.
This material addresses the question of the consequences of the decline in reading literature. The reading passage suggests that those consequences are devastating for the reading public, for culture, and for the literature itself. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes this information by stating that not all the tendencies are disadvantageous.
To begin with, the reading passage highlights that in particular we lose our imagination, possibility to enrich our language since we prefer reading law-quality books which do not stimulate us intellectually. Meanwhile, the professor casts doubt on this and argues that, for example, books in the fields of science and history that cannot be considered as literature may also be of highest quality and as creative, as novels, plays and poems.
Additionally, the article posits that the value of culture is underestimated nowadays since we spend more time watching TV, in the Internet, or listening to music. However, the professor advocates a different approach and provides the following details. Namely, she mentions that the mentioned forms of entertainment may also be valuable from the cultural perspective - for example, a beautiful music; and, therefore, we cannot draw conclusion that reading less inevitably leads to the degradation of culture.
Finally, the author invites attention to the fact that the tendency of reading less explains the fact why publishers support writers less. This goes counter to the listening passage, according to which, there are a lot of pieces of contemporary literature which are extremely hard to understand, and this is one of the most important factors explaining the relevant actions of publishers.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 380, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'of the highest'.
Suggestion: of the highest
...be considered as literature may also be of highest quality and as creative, as novels, pla...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, for example, in particular, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1438.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50957854406 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10198050989 2.5805825403 120% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60153256705 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.1843833565 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.8 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5 7.06452816374 163% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.249219296406 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907254078965 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0965872077705 0.0662205650399 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147271254465 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0694649700643 0.0443174109184 157% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 13.3589403974 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 53.8541721854 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.2367328918 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.83 8.42419426049 117% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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