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 reading and the lecture are both about effect of today's people reading literature books less, which the author states that more trendy nowadays. The author of the reading believes there are downsides for this trend. The lecturer challenges the statements made by the author. she is of the opinion that it has not gotten that bad.
First of all, the author suggests that book reading, especially literature and novel reading has been declined. it is mentioned that literature and novels help to increase our imagination and improve our language. so reading less affects these developments badly. The argument is refuted by the lecturer. she says literature is not the only book kind to improve such qualities. Furthermore, she argues that science, history, political, and many other genres of books also can improve one's such characteristics, and also they are often written with high quality.
Secondly, the article posits that self-help books are prevailing, and they are written poorly. The article notes that people are spending their to watch tv shows, listen musics, and read a web page. As a result, these things lowered the quality of culture. The lecturer, however, rebut this by asserting that good movies and musics are helpful to cultural demands. she elaborates on this by mentioning that such forms of entertainments speak directly to people than books do.
Finally, it is stated that the reading less trend occur during the time of good writing and that's quite unfortunate. The article establishes that lack of audiences lead to invest less to literature. so literature has a high probability of declining. The lecturer, however, opposes that nowadays' literature books are difficult. Thus, it is authors' fault. she puts forth the idea that literature from the previous generations were not that difficult as today's literature.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ves there are downsides for this trend. The lecturer challenges the statements made...
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...re and novel reading has been declined. it is mentioned that literature and novels...
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... imagination and improve our language. so reading less affects these developments...
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...n and improve our language. so reading less affects these developments badly. The a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1551.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22222222222 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70669377747 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558922558923 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 482.4 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0394164013 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 73.8571428571 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.1428571429 21.698381199 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38095238095 7.06452816374 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.415785216745 0.272083759551 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108626307178 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0836130786357 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.247609956126 0.162205337803 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0484937510587 0.0443174109184 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.4 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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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.