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 passage is on less reading on literature book and it says it was shocking. It presents three supporting ideas in order to strengthen its position. On the other hand, the professor found opposite effects on that dwindling literature reading. She eviscerates each of the reading claims.
First, the reading states book reading is down that is the omen of downing intelligent level. But, the professor refutes this position. She says, although literature reading was narrowed now but reading other types of books such as science, magazine etc. is the stimulator of genius level.
Second, the passage asserts as the literature reading slowed, it will downgrade cultural standard. The lecturer opposes this assertions. She explains, the cultural standard will rise by practicing alternative medias such as watching television series, listening music, surfing different web pages, reading best seller books.
Third, the reading demonstrates due to the lower quality of audience, the possible emergence of quality writers will be dwindling. The statements is quite doubtful with the professor. She says, the fault was not actually fall on the reader sides, rather it was authors or writers weakness not to write in an elegant and crystal way. She also disclose, now-a-days writers are used to scribbling their context in an arcane way that compelled readers to shirk their materials.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 121, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...cultural standard. The lecturer opposes this assertions. She explains, the cultural ...
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Line 5, column 299, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'reading the best'.
Suggestion: reading the best
...ing music, surfing different web pages, reading best seller books. Third, the reading dem...
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Line 7, column 147, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[4]
Message: You should probably use: 'are'.
Suggestion: are
...iters will be dwindling. The statements is quite doubtful with the professor. She ...
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Line 7, column 343, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'She' must be used with a third-person verb: 'discloses'.
Suggestion: discloses
...in an elegant and crystal way. She also disclose, now-a-days writers are used to scribbl...
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Line 7, column 409, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an arcane way" with adverb for "arcane"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...rs are used to scribbling their context in an arcane way that compelled readers to shirk their m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, second, so, then, third, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1182.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 218.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42201834862 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6939379306 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.619266055046 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 349.2 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.7851165753 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.8 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.5333333333 21.698381199 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53333333333 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154992589379 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0538216700545 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0488528040604 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10121750969 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0446328426204 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.56 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 10.7273730684 47% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 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.