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 lecture discuss about the trend of reading less literature in general. The author argues that this trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture, and for the future of literature itself. However, the lecturer contradicts the view by explaining her points.
Firstly, the author assists that literature encourages people to exercise their imaginations, empathize with others, and expand their understanding of language which provides intellectual stimulation. However, the lecturer disputes the arguments by explaining that book does not have to be literature to stimulate intellect. Additionally, she points out that non- literature books like science, political analysis or history are already provided high quality materials, as well as, they are creative and well-written which undoubtly stimulate people's thinking.
Secondly, the author claims that people are wasting their reading time to trivial forms of entertainment which has lowered the level of culture. In contrast, the lecturer contends that people are spending less time reading books in general. Moreover, she states that it is ignorance to not considering non- written forms of literature such as music and movies. She again, insists that people's preferences has changed over time, and there are many form of expression which attract and convey an opinion more directly than contemporary literature does.
Finally, the author insists that there are more talented writers who lack audience because of the poor standards of the readers. The lecturer, however, contests that the blame should not be on the readers because contemporary literatures are difficult to understand. Furthermore, she notes that the previous readers would not be interested in today's literature as well.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 443, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun form seems to be countable; consider using: 'many forms'.
Suggestion: many forms
...es has changed over time, and there are many form of expression which attract and convey ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, well, in contrast, in general, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6828358209 5.08290768461 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85853774267 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578358208955 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3869621297 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.153846154 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6153846154 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.92307692308 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.279851898911 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0993437550049 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122323555416 0.0662205650399 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172076270745 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.143572381812 0.0443174109184 324% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.3589403974 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 53.8541721854 64% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.0289183223 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.66 12.2367328918 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.52 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.2008830022 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.