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 main idea presented in both the reading and the lecture is about the decline of reading literary works. Considering this, the author explains that nowadays people do not read as much literature as previous. The lecturer, on the contrary, categorically denies the reasons mentioned in the passage and refutes all of them.
First, both the lecture and the passage talk about the decline in reading books. According to the reading, although there has been a decline in reading books, the decline in reading literature is much more conspicuous and as a result people lose their intellectual and imagination abilities. However, the professor explains that intellectual ability and having a high imagination are not limited to literary works. There a lot of music masterpieces, historical, or even political materials that are much better than literature and can help people enhance and improve their imagination.
Second, both the passage and the talk are about the consequence of ruling out literature and its impact on culture. While the passage claims that the substitution of manuals and self-read books instead of literature books is not beneficiary, the lecturer refutes the idea citing that culture has been change. There are a number of prominent movies and music that are more intellectual and listening and watching these materials do not mean that culture is being endangered.
Eventually, both the reading and the lecture discuss the contemporary situation of literature books’ writers. The reading expresses that in today’s era, there has been an abundance of writers for literature; however, no one is intended to care. Nevertheless, the lecture explains that the quality of these works has been changed and it is really difficult for modern people to understand the content of literary works, which was not the case in the past.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, nevertheless, really, second, so, while, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1567.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31186440678 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88556024272 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484745762712 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 500.4 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.423487606 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.538461538 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6923076923 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.84615384615 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200429812019 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0718013406366 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487445811488 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1261731905 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345695774457 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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