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 lecture is about the current treand of decline in reading literature and its effect. While the passage tries to establish the negative consequences of this trend of decline in reading literature, the lecture argues against the points presented in the writing.
Firstly, the author says that by the decline in reading literature, people are missing out the intellectual stimulation that literature provides. The lecturer, however, rebuts this point by saying that there are many science and other books from different disciplines that are also very stimulating for the readers. So, it is not right to say that just because someone not reading a literature book means he is not reading a good book.
Secondly, the passage indicates that people reading less books is a sign of lowering the level of culture as they are choosing many trivial forms of entertainment instead. The lecturer rebuts this point by stating that books are not the only form of culture and reading less books not necessarily means that the culture is in decline. In addition, she pointed out at the different non-literature cultural components like movies, songs, etc. In her opinion some of this non-literature form of culture communicates better with the current generation than the literature. So, she concluded that the culture has changed rather than it has declined.
Finally, the passage accused the readers for the lack of support of the publishers behind the serious writers due to lack of audiences. But the lecturer disagrees with the notion. In her opinion, though it is true that the publishers are giving less support to the writers, it is also true that many writrers write in a way that are difficult to understand which, in turn, discourages readers. And people from previous generation are not much interested in readingt the literature from this generation.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 75, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he decline in reading literature, people are missing out the intellectual stimula...
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Line 5, column 214, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun science seems to be countable; consider using: 'many sciences'.
Suggestion: many sciences
...uts this point by saying that there are many science and other books from different discipli...
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Line 5, column 375, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'reads'.
Suggestion: reads
...ht to say that just because someone not reading a literature book means he is not readi...
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Line 9, column 53, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun books is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...e passage indicates that people reading less books is a sign of lowering the level o...
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Line 9, column 271, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun books is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ot the only form of culture and reading less books not necessarily means that the cu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, in addition, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1577.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17049180328 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77471595715 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491803278689 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 488.7 419.366225166 117% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9055084233 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.642857143 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7857142857 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.21428571429 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.262640873715 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0874188450706 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0461452795643 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15069045197 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0355336516361 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.