According to the passage, nowadays people tend to read fewer books, particularly literature books such as novels and plays. This may stop them benefiting from several advantageous of the literature. However, the lecture challenges each point made in the reading passage and the lecturer believes that the damage is less than that is explained by the author of the passage.
First of all, the passage explains that a reduction in the tendency of people to read literature books would stop them benefiting from the intellectual stimulation which is believed to be only achieved through the literature. On the contrary, the lecture contradicts this idea. The lecturer states that intellectual stimulation is achievable through other kinds of books such as science books. She explains that a science book with a high quality is as creative as a novel and provides the reader with intellectual stimulation.
Second, the passage points out that nowadays many people spend their time on types of entertainment which are not as beneficial as literature. However, the lecturer believes that today the culture has changed and there are a plenty forms of culture available. In other words, a person does not waste his time by listening to a good music which is a part of a culture.
Third, the passage contends that as fewer people are reading literature books, the preference for investment in literature has declined which would vanish the talented writers who are not supported by audiences and investors. On the other hand, although the lecturer agrees with the idea that the number of readers has reduced, at the same time she asserts that the writing style of today’s writers has changed and modern literature is difficult to understand.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, third, such as, first of all, in other words, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1466.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18021201413 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8185168544 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501766784452 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 457.2 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8034865346 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.166666667 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5833333333 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.75 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.307878300204 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106780126356 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0808337604568 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188952124699 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606219024741 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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.