Both the passage and the lecture discuss buzzing, which is a new type of advertising in which companies hire people to praise their products to their acquaintances without revealing they had been paid. The passage stands that this practice is unethical and harmful, so consequently, should be banned. However, the lecturer states that the text is wrongly depicting the job, and casts doubt on the claims made by the passage.
First, the passage claims that buzzing is unethical. They say that a person should know whether someone is paid for praising a product because otherwise, people would be more open to accepting incorrect information used to advertise. The lecturer challenges this point. He states that buzzers will not give false information because in order to be hired they genuinely have to like the product, so if they say something is because they truly think it.
Second, the author of the text posits that buzzers take people off-guard, and that leads them to be less critical of the claims and possible empty promises. The lecturer rebuts this idea. He points out that even when he is buzzing, people do not trust blindly in his claims. Furthermore, he states that he has to answer a lot of question in order to sell a product.
Finally, the text argues that buzzing will have a major social impact on civilization. It is noted that people will probably become less trustful once they realize anyone could be secretly advertising a product. The lecturer casts doubt on this claim. He says that this is unlikely because buzzers are not fooling people and if a company does not have a good product they just simply will not have buzzers nor consumers who trust them.
Finally, the text argues that buzzing will have a major social impact on civilization. It is noted that people will probably become less trustful once they realize anyone could be secretly advertising a product. The lecturer casts doubt on this claim. He says that this is unlikely because buzzers are not fooling people and if a company does not have a good product they just simply will not have buzzers nor consumers who trust them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 22.412803532 210% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1771.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 362.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89226519337 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47307314463 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.42817679558 0.540411800872 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 534.6 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.865489424 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.2105263158 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0526315789 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.10526315789 7.06452816374 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.445298348671 0.272083759551 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137085151454 0.0996497079465 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0980179094956 0.0662205650399 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.280954838619 0.162205337803 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0976170967813 0.0443174109184 220% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.15 8.42419426049 85% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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