The reading and the lecture offer opposing views on the benefits of professors appearing on TV news programs as guests. While the passage says that it benefits multiple parties including the professors themselves, the lecturer repudiates this claim and goes on to say that it may not do any good to anyone.
First, the text posits that professors benefit from this activity as they get recognition among wider audience as academic experts. In contrary, the speaker refutes this by saying that such professors may suffer professionally as they may be perceived by fellow scholars as those who are more into entertaining than educating. This may result in them losing on the research and scholarship.
Besides this, the lecturer contends that a lot of their time will be wasted in preparing for the news programs in gathering content to speak, to rehearse, to travel and ultimately to prepare themselves to look good on the TV. This time can be utilized in the university related activities like meeting students and doing research.
Seondly, the text states that the general public will benefit as it will get contents from the experts which would not have been possible otherwise. However, the lectuer says that TV networks do not prefer to broadcast intellectual content in after dinner shows. Additionally, she believes that the same content can be delivered by a reporter who has done some background research in the related topic. So, pubic may not take adavantage of this due to the quality of content broadcasted.
Thus, there is a clear disparity in the arguments put forth by both reading and listening and it can be concluded that the text fails to substantiate the arguments presented by the lecturer.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 35, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...h. Seondly, the text states that the general public will benefit as it will get contents fr...
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Line 7, column 408, Rule ID: PUBIC_X[1]
Message: Did you mean 'public'?
Suggestion: public
...ound research in the related topic. So, pubic may not take adavantage of this due to ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, however, look, may, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1440.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07042253521 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77814893154 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577464788732 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9154085089 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 7.06452816374 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.136138076164 0.272083759551 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0498892379513 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0347814048917 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.069491339678 0.162205337803 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.041458723731 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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