University

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University

The article states that universities should focus on researches. It also provides three reasons to support the claim. However, the speaker explains that teaching methods are more important than conducting researches and refutes each of the author’s reasons.

To begin with, the writer insists that a position of a university in the national ranking system is highly depended on a number of made discoveries and published papers. Therefore, a university should pay attention to conducted studies in order to attract students with high rank. The lecturer, It is said in the lecture contends this point by asserting that the modern rank system takes into account the teaching performance rather than scientific success. According to the speaker, it is more beneficial to concentrate on teaching to reach a high rank.

What is more, the reading reports that researchers make professors and universities more famous and recognizable. These professors are called “Public intellectuals” and they raise the prestige of universities Whereas the listening asserts the main goal of professors is to make knowledge accessible for everyone. According to the lecture, this aim can be more likely achieved by focusing on teaching methods rather than scientific studies.

In addition, the article claims that professors who are conducting plenty of researches are better experts at their fields. It happens because studies allow being informed about every change of views. In contrast, the lecturer opposes this point by explaining that often good scientists are not good teachers. She provides an example of it: a well-known professor from her university is a bright scientist, however, he is not able to deliver a lecture.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, therefore, well, whereas, in addition, in contrast, to begin with, what is more

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1468.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49812734082 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03658253777 2.5805825403 118% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59925093633 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1722052774 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.857142857 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0714285714 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.28571428571 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2304315083 0.272083759551 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0855162387694 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104173516211 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141645817865 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307477122886 0.0443174109184 69% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.49 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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