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.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast
doubt on speclflc points made in the reading passage.
The reading passage and the article discuss the decline of reading literature among young people and consequences of that. The writer states that such trend leads to disaster in such spheres of life, as culture, future of literature and readers themselves. The lecturer disagrees with this point of view and describes the reasons, why decrease of reading is not so critically.
First of all, the article mentions that the decline of reading novels, plays, and poems, decrease the development of intellect, which is serious problem for young people. However, the speaker argues that there is a large number of high quality political and historical literature, which is as creative, as novels, plays, and poems. So such books could provide the intellectual stimulation too.
Secondly, the passage presumes that young people do not read literature and switching to horrible written books, TV shows or serving on internet. The lecturer, on the other hand, contends that the level of culture can not drop if a person listen to incredible music or watch good movies. This way of entertainment could change a lot in people’s culture for the better.
And finally, the author of the article claims that, because of declining of the reading, talented writers can not get financial help of the publishers since less people want to read serious novels. Nonetheless, the speaker explains that it is fault of those authors. Nowadays he writers get less support because they make a literature that is really difficult to understand, so young readers do not have a desire to buy such books.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 258, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e of literature and readers themselves. The lecturer disagrees with this point of v...
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Line 2, column 213, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...wever, the speaker argues that there is a large number of high quality political and historical l...
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Line 4, column 158, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... financial help of the publishers since less people want to read serious novels. Non...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, nonetheless, really, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1321.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10038610039 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68015414647 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 396.9 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4079887591 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.083333333 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5833333333 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.58333333333 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264117874333 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0872308565432 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072894992348 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150946448364 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516205871483 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => 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: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.