TOEFL Official Guide - Practice Test 2 - Integrated Writing - Professors on TV
The discussion is whether professors should be giving talks on wide media like television or they should stick to classrooms, library research, and conferences.
Firstly, the passage claims that the professor gets a wider audience to listen to his/her research work. When a professor gets a platform as big as a television, where the whole world can see the professors' work, he/she also gains the reputation among his/her colleagues at the university. To which the lecture makes an opposite argument by stating the fact that a medium like TV is not actually looking for something as serious as education. Viewers of television would prefer watching something entertaining rather than some meticulous research work. The focus of TV programs is to telecast a movie version of some educational work so that it can be entitled to an educational program.
Secondly, the passage states the professor will be able to reach to wider audiences as compared to a guest lecture or attending a conference. In contrast to this, the lecturer says being on television will bring down the reputation of the professor among his/her colleagues. They will think of him/her as some entertainer and not as a serious scholar whose main focus is to share the knowledge and educate the students of the university. Moreover, the lecturer says the professor can use the time wasted in traveling, preparing for the talk on TV and looking good on the show on talking to the students, his/her own research and university business, which will be more fruitful to his time.
In addition to this, the passage mentions a wider audience will lead to an increased value of that university which will eventually lead to more scholar students willing to apply at that university. The university may get more donation for the research work, to which the lecturer says the appearance on TV might lead to a reduction in funding.
In conclusion, TV appearance of a professor may lead to waste of time, money and the reputation of the professor and the university, both, can be at stake.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 358, Rule ID: MAIN_FOCUS[1]
Message: Use simply 'focus'.
Suggestion: focus
...iner and not as a serious scholar whose main focus is to share the knowledge and educate t...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, in addition, in conclusion, in contrast, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1714.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 343.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9970845481 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85722317969 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475218658892 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.0 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 37.3672007556 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.846153846 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3846153846 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => 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: 0.1001801573 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.04375063099 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0335251911058 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0684691527106 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037914950517 0.0443174109184 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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