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 passage and lecture give an insight of how literature readings has become less nowadays due to advancement in technology which people rely more on. The theories presented are both compared and contrasted.
Firstly, there is a decline in the book reading which can have unfortunate effects for the future of literature. However, the professor implies that literature need not comprise of just books related to literature, but it could mean high level books of science, arts and social that stimulate the imagination.
Secondly, people substitute books on literature with poorly written and intellectually demanding books. Moreover, instead of spending time reading novels, they rely on television, watch a music video or read a web page. This contributes in the lowering of culture. Nevertheless, the professor clearly states that spending less time in literature is tantamount to spending less time reading books. As a result of which, there is a decline in culture. On the other hand, non – literary activities like movies or music don’t decrease the cultural forms.
Thirdly, the passage focusses on the idea of modern writers producing good works contrary to the claim made in the lecture about the complexity of the content used in contemporary works, making it difficult for the readers to follow. Thus, authors are to be blamed rather than the readers.
To put it in a nutshell, the above stated facts can be reiterated that decline in literature is accounted not only by the readers but also by the authors.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 170, Rule ID: COMPRISE_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprise' or 'consist of'?
Suggestion: comprise; consist of
...fessor implies that literature need not comprise of just books related to literature, but i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => 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: 1298.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23387096774 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8236749031 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612903225806 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.366556885 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.8461538462 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0769230769 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6153846154 7.06452816374 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.398694069156 0.272083759551 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115935334295 0.0996497079465 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0856348511292 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176602788187 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0964512260111 0.0443174109184 218% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 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.