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.
Both the reading and the lecture are about the new trend in reading litrature books in people. While the lecture states that nowadays people read fewer litrature books such as novels, plays and poems,whuich will affect the public intelectual and culture in general, the professor, however, rejects this and counterargues the writer in all ways.
First, the lecture avers that the number of published books are declining constantly and it happens especially for literature books. It asserts that it will decrease the intellectual stimulates for people. On the other hand, the professor contends this point by explaining that it is not correct that we think the only literature books stimulate the intelectuality in poeple. She mentions that other type of science book such as mathematics or physics or other field can do this very well.
Secondly, the reading claims that besides the missing the benefites of literature we substitute them with simple self-help books which are superficials. In contrest, the professor rejects this notice by saaying that the only form of culture is not the books and nowadays culture is changed with past time. People are useing other ways to communicate and learn about culture. Movies, music and TV programs are new good alternative for litrerature books and they are more feasible and accessible for them now compare the past.
Thirdly, the article points out that this new terend has another bad efect not only on reader but also on writer. It states that this less reading trends cause the publisher to decline their support for good writers. Good writer will lose thier enthusiastic to work on their work then. Conversely, the professor we cannot blame all the readers and it is the writers' fault that they could not attract readers with simple and easy writing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, conversely, first, however, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, in general, such as, 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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 1514.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 296.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11486486486 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57480310508 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543918918919 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 453.6 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4818977321 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.142857143 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6428571429 7.06452816374 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245269396407 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0843513861589 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611426868134 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146753181019 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358766108289 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24 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.