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 states three reasons for the effect of lacking literature reading on the public and the literature itself. However, the lecturer shows the contrast.
First, according to the reading passage, reading literature enhance the public imagination and increases the languages' understanding. Yet, the speaker opposes the passage's statement by mentioning that reading literature is not the only source for intellecutal stimulation, but also we can get this advantage from reading other kinds of books such as science books or well-written books in other aspects.
Second, the author mentions that alternatives that people use instead of reading literature books also have a detrimental effect, as those kind of replacements are superficial and trivial don't provide the intellectually demanding. However, the lecturer refutes the author's reason by arguing that if people watch a good movie or listen to music, that doesn't trivial forms of entertainment, this is suitable for the culture change and also provides valuable things to the public.
Finally, as the passages says, that lacking in literature reading led the publishers no longer support the literature's authors. On the contrast, the speakers denies that by pointiong out that lacking of support is the authors' fault as they write intricate writing which is not appeal to the readers and not understandable like before. Therefore, the publisher don't support the literature writers.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...provides valuable things to the public. Finally, as the passages says, that lack...
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...e like before. Therefore, the publisher dont support the literature writers.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, well, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1238.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57657657658 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92502975067 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581081081081 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.9046226677 49.2860985944 156% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.555555556 110.228320801 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6666666667 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.44444444444 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.269952038663 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108811471356 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0820815213532 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171140743432 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0639302998764 0.0443174109184 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.3589403974 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 53.8541721854 72% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.38 12.2367328918 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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.