TPO-11 - Integrated Writing Task
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. While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So by reading less literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits.
Unfortunately, missing out on the benefits of literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead? Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best sellers. These are usually superficial poorly written, and intellectually undemanding. Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general.
The trend of reading less literature is all the more regrettable because it is taking place during a period when good literature is being written. There are many talented writers today, but theylack an audience. This fact is bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. Thus, the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today's readers.
The lecturer doubts the point be made in the passage for the following reasons.
First, literature has changed its form, and the novels and poems are not the only forms of literature that stimulate people's imagination. In response to the passage which states that literature, only in the forms of novels, plays, and poems, could provide intellectual stimulation and imagination, the professor said that other literature, such as scientific literature, could also provide intellectual stimulation and imagination to people.
Second, in terms of the point made in the passage that reading less make the level of culture lower, the professor argues that the form of culture has changed, and there are more different types of cultural rich content now compare to the past. Music and movie are the examples of the different types of cultural rich context. Furthermore, the professor also suggests that those new forms of culture speak more directly than those before.
Third, the low standard of writing and reading of the literature could not solely be the reader's fault, the writer should take some responsibility as well. In the view of the lecturer, there is a trend that literature is more difficult to read now compare to the old times, and she doubts that if the literature was as difficult to read as it is now, the reader would not have read so much as they were.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, second, so, third, well, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1147.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98695652174 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67518527528 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.513043478261 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 360.9 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.1279620299 49.2860985944 161% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.375 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.75 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.330914213441 0.272083759551 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126922889311 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874167496556 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163184043233 0.162205337803 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101983231973 0.0443174109184 230% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.3589403974 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.7273730684 144% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.2008830022 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.