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.
The reading passage claims that studying far less literature such as novel, poems, and plays can have an adverse effect on young people and provides three reasons for support. However, the lecturer finds all the ideas mentioned by reading uncertain and presents some evidence to refute each of them.
Firstly, the author argues that reading literature provides more benefits and intellectual motivation than others do. Therefore, the decline in literature reading can cause unrecoverable damage to the reading public. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that this reason is highly questionable due to the fact that there are other different kinds of books having political writing, science, and history which have a high quality of creativity and imagination. Hence, it should not be presumed that a literature book is a good book.
Additionally, the article holds the view that spending less time on reading literature can decrease the level of culture in a country, and reading other sources instead of literature cause irreparable problems. On the contrary, the professor underlies the fact that there are plenty of cultural material that is not written by literature writers. In fact, there are plenty of culturally good forms rather than literature.
Finally, the passage asserts that today there are many adept writers who can write impressive literature. However, because of lacking the literature reader, the writing of good literature is likely to decline. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that there are a lot of author’s faults in the literature that are so difficult to be understood by readers. Hence, there will be a great deal of declining allocated to reading literature.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, so, therefore, in contrast, in fact, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1467.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33454545455 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79573701455 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567272727273 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9191635405 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.846153846 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1538461538 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.07692307692 7.06452816374 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.244908888708 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0812952200932 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0732854502101 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146707545133 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0603991752064 0.0443174109184 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.8541721854 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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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.