The passage corrrelates the decline in the literature reading with lowering of the level of culture in general. However, the speaker in the lecture doesn't agree with this. She says that decline in the reading of literature may have other reasons but it is not related to lowering of the level of culture.
Firstly, according to the lecture, literature is not the only source of intellectual stimulation as per the passage. Speaker says that well written books on science, politics and history also are intellectually stimulating. So, the current culture is using other ways for intellectual stimulation other than literature.
Secondly, the speaker mentions that listening to music and watching a good movie may make the people more creative and this in turn will will increase the level of culture instead of lowering it. She says that using various sources to develop creativity is better than using just one source.
Thirdly, the speaker states that it is not the fault of the people that they read less literature nowadays. This is because the literature in modern times is written in a way which is very difficult to understand. She says that even the people in earlier days would have had difficulty in reading and understanding modern literature. So it is the fault of the authors that they are getting less readers now.
In this way, the lecture concludes that decline in the literature reading is not the readers fault and it is not lowering the level of culture.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: doesn't
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Suggestion: will
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Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun readers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...lt of the authors that they are getting less readers now. In this way, the lectur...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1237.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98790322581 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68924407387 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.471774193548 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 391.5 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.0264313918 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1538461538 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0769230769 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61538461538 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.397536581882 0.272083759551 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144657822758 0.0996497079465 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0891158868765 0.0662205650399 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219935222776 0.162205337803 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0830331522903 0.0443174109184 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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