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.
The reading passage and the lecture are about the decline of reading literature and how that causes negative effects on public reading and the culture in genera. The article states three arguments to sustain this topic. On the other hand, the lecturer casts doubts on these arguments and gives her opinion to disprove the claims made by the article.
First of all, according to the reading besides literature, nothing else encourages exercising our imagination, and can offer the same level of intellectual stimulation. However, the lecturer disputes this point by saying that reading books about sciences, political analysis and so on can also stimulate our creativity. Not only literature does.
Secondly, the reading states that today self-help books are considered best sellers and this kind of book s are poorly written and intellectually non demanding. Also, the article states that people prefer some trivial forms of entertainment such as watching television instead of read a book. Nevertheless, the professor refutes this argument by saying that culture has changed and it can be found in many different forms of expressions. She argues that music, movies and arts are also valuable cultural material. Not only literature is.
Finally, the reading claims that nowadays good literature has being written, but there is lack of audience resulting in less investment in literature by the lead publishers. On the other hand, the professor blames the authors instead of the poor standards readers. Suggesting that, modern literature is difficult to understand.
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- People learn things better from those at their own level such as fellow students or co workers than from those at a higher level such as teachers or supervisors Do you agree or disagree 68
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sprove the claims made by the article. First of all, according to the reading b...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...creativity. Not only literature does. Secondly, the reading states that today ...
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Line 5, column 61, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'considered the best'.
Suggestion: considered the best
...g states that today self-help books are considered best sellers and this kind of book s are poo...
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Line 5, column 402, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...ture has changed and it can be found in many different forms of expressions. She argues that m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, kind of, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1333.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44081632653 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79610009837 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608163265306 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 412.2 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.7683222026 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2142857143 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.57142857143 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.171342766696 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0570313423319 0.0996497079465 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548405609825 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105512291464 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0296540092597 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.