The reading and the lecture are both talking about literature, which seems to be in decline. The author says that fewer and fewer people read literature nowadays. The lecturer states that there are other well-written books available on the market, which can be comparable with literature.
First, books about science, history, politics are as good as poems, plays and novels in terms of providing significant knowledge. These can both stimulate the imagination and offer a valuable perspective upon different aspects of live. In other words, even if some individuals gave up on reading literature, they found other interesting sources for gaining various intellectual benefits. This directly contradicts what the first passage indicates.
Second, people developed other methods to express emotions, to transmit messages and to entertain the human mind. The author states that the information provided by television or the Internet is not intellectually demanding and that the content is not qualitative. However, the speaker talks about a cultural evolution in this area. Therefore, movies and films are capable to communicate emotions and empathizes more directly than classic literature. This is a strong standpoint that contradicts the author's point of view.
Third, the modern writers are not capable to provide valuable books. Moreover, their style is so difficult to be interpreted that even our ancestors would choose to read something else. Even though the author throw the fault on the individuals' lack of interest, the real problem belongs to the untalented writers. This fact is contradicting the passage which blames the audience and the publishers. In conclusion, the author and the lecturer appear to be in disagreement regarding this topic.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 164, 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.
... fewer people read literature nowadays. The lecturer states that there are other we...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, well, in conclusion, talking about, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1495.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 270.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53703703704 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9132425521 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607407407407 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.6189619431 49.2860985944 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 87.9411764706 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8823529412 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11764705882 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223368478817 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0625585008063 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587299870784 0.0662205650399 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132316404152 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594749048928 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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