TOEFL Official Guide - Practice Test 2 - Integrated Writing - Professors on TV

The reading passage suggests that now a days professors are involved not only in lecturing,conducting research etc but also in presenting the views or lectures on a particular subject on TV.

The passage clearly suggests that appearing on TV is beneficial for professors as in that case their audience is much wider than the audience in small university community which in turn make their ideas appreciated by a lot of scholars outside the university too. Whereas the speaker contradicts it by saying that other scholars think of the professor appearing on TV as a TV celebrity or entertainer then...

*** The full content of this essay is available to VIP readers

Subscribe as testbig VIP readers and get unlimited access to essays on the top list.

Votes
Average: 7 (3 votes)
Essay Categories

now a days
nowadays

Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 12
No. of Words: 313 250
No. of Characters: 1534 1200
No. of Different Words: 164 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.206 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.901 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.826 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 39.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.587 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.448 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.718 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4