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 article states that the reading book and literature has declined and has affected our culture generally as well as the future of literature specifically. The professor, however, does not believe so and insists that the writer's opinion is not correct. She repudiates all the writer's reasons.
First, the reading avers that people spend much less time reading books, and it has happened for literature books sharply. It mentions that literature provokes people's intellectual abilities. Then it is an unfortunate that people do not read literature enough. On the other hand, the lecturer challenges this theory by saying that people are reading many other kinds of books. She asserts that science, history , and political books which people read are as stimulating as literature books. She adds that those high quality and creative books arouse readers' imagination. She opposes the reason of the writer directly.
Second, the reading claims that self-helping books are the best sellers. It is a negative effest of changing the cultural trends. Those superficial books and TV shows as well as the Internet waste people's time. Controversially, the professor contends this mention, and she posits that other types of culture such as: music or movie are so intersting and they convey our culture in a more convenient way rather than books. She points out that listenning to a good music is valuable as reading. Therefore, she counter argues the idea that people are killing their time watching movies or listening music.
Third, the professor rebuts the author's idea that this trend is a shame on readers. She challenges this idea by explaining that contemporary writers' book are so hard to understand specially for new generation readers. She strongly believes that it is writers fault not the readers. New writers are interested to write in a hard to read and understand way. Hence, we should not blame the readers instead of the writers.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 224, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...oes not believe so and insists that the writers opinion is not correct. She repudiates ...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e repudiates all the writers reasons. First, the reading avers that people spe...
^^^^^^
Line 2, column 417, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...books. She asserts that science, history , and political books which people read a...
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Line 2, column 578, 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.
...ative books arouse readers imagination. She opposes the reason of the writer direct...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...es the reason of the writer directly. Second, the reading claims that self-hel...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 448, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y rather than books. She points out that listenning to a good music is valuable a...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e watching movies or listening music. Third, the professor rebuts the authors ...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 39, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... Third, the professor rebuts the authors idea that this trend is a shame on read...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, second, so, then, therefore, third, well, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1625.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15873015873 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69797551202 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536507936508 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.4613965042 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.380952381 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.0 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2462710453 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704617613715 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736079903947 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142481780224 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0719470736279 0.0443174109184 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 224, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...oes not believe so and insists that the writers opinion is not correct. She repudiates ...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e repudiates all the writers reasons. First, the reading avers that people spe...
^^^^^^
Line 2, column 417, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...books. She asserts that science, history , and political books which people read a...
^^
Line 2, column 578, 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.
...ative books arouse readers imagination. She opposes the reason of the writer direct...
^^^
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...es the reason of the writer directly. Second, the reading claims that self-hel...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 448, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y rather than books. She points out that listenning to a good music is valuable a...
^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e watching movies or listening music. Third, the professor rebuts the authors ...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 39, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... Third, the professor rebuts the authors idea that this trend is a shame on read...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, second, so, then, therefore, third, well, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1625.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15873015873 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69797551202 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536507936508 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.4613965042 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.380952381 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.0 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2462710453 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704617613715 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736079903947 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142481780224 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0719470736279 0.0443174109184 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.