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 are both about the reading trend nowadays. The author of the reading believes that people read less literature. The lecturer cast doubt on the claim made in the article.
First of all, the author points that people are missing out on essential benefits due to the fact that they read less literature. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that books are not only novels, plays, poems, but also educational literature which have high quality and let us to improve our knowledge.
Secondly, the author contends that quality of modern literature are becoming more and more poorer nowadays and this fact led to declining the level of culture at all. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that there are a lot of other form of culture which people can use in order to become more educated. For example, listening brilliant music or watching good movies. She does not think that it is waste of time. She is quite sure that culture has just changed.
Finally, the author establishes that poor standards of today's readers led to decreasing of quality of the writing. The professor, on the other hand, posits that today's writers just want to be more understandable for readers, that is why they write more easier.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 141, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ieves that people read less literature. The lecturer cast doubt on the claim made i...
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Line 3, column 287, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...l literature which have high quality and let us to improve our knowledge. Seco...
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Line 5, column 87, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'poorer' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: poorer
...modern literature are becoming more and more poorer nowadays and this fact led to declining...
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Line 7, column 249, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'easier' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: easier
...ble for readers, that is why they write more easier.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, second, secondly, so, for example, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1052.0 1373.03311258 77% => OK
No of words: 215.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89302325581 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82921379641 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43676544867 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.590697674419 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 324.0 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.8189689611 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.1428571429 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3571428571 21.698381199 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64285714286 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.185670315549 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0602678420235 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0512636226389 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107952360428 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458629328765 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.49 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 63.6247240618 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 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.