TOEFL Official Guide - Practice Test 2 - Integrated Writing - Professors on TV
The reading and the lecture are both about the television programs advertising experts commentary. The author of the reading feels that such programs have several advantages for the experts as well professors, for the universities and the general public. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that no additional benefits can be found from these type of specific programs.
To begin with, the author argues that professors get more reputations by attending television programs. The article mentions that more people outside the academic area will be able to gain knowledge from the experts through television. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that appearing on television is not so good for the professors. Additionally, she says that less scholary people will watch those programs and ultimately will offer no benefits for the professors.
Secondly, the writer suggests that related universities of the professors also achieve advantages from these type of programs. In the article, it is said that increased reputation will be helpful to get more donations for the university as well as more students applications. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that professors have to allocate extra time for such appearance. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that professors need more time to prepare themselves for the programs like speech rehearsel, travelling to the studio and getting ready. On the other hand, those time can be spent more effectively for research purposes and meetings with the students.
Finally, the author posts that general public get benefits from the programs. In contrat, the lecturer's position is that in the TV programs, professors give a brief idea about a topic but not give any intellectuals ideas. She notes that public will not get interest to watch these programs after their dinner.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 240, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...rofessors, for the universities and the general public. The lecturer challenges the claims mad...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 256, 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.
...he universities and the general public. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
^^^
Line 7, column 32, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...nts. Finally, the author posts that general public get benefits from the programs. In cont...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1615.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 304.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3125 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82396861458 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516447368421 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8564034021 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8823529412 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.17647058824 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.0462993228665 0.272083759551 17% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0164373195413 0.0996497079465 16% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0271727886488 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0306689616592 0.162205337803 19% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0219271505332 0.0443174109184 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => 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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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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