Both the reading passage and the lecture mention one of the great changes in our society: People read less books than they did in the past. However the professor does not look at it as pessimistic as the reading does.
The first problem described by the passage is the great decline in reading literature and believes that this would result in huge lack of intellectuality, imaination and social sympathy. The lecturer discredits this belief by elaborating a fact that the literature is not the only source for these benefits and other books such as historical or scientific written sources can greatly improve intellectual aspects of the society.
The other belief that is explained in the reading is that the other forms of entertainment that has been replaced by the books are not as culturally valuable as literature. The professor disputes this idea and reminds us that our culture has been changed and these forms of media such as television and music can have the same worth that books have had.
In the end, the reading passage points out the decline of authors due to the lack of readers and blames the people for this damage. But in the lecture we see that the problem may be refered to the authors themselves who create less valuable literature in comparison to their precedents.
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- consequences of reading less literature. 61
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 103, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun books is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...eat changes in our society: People read less books than they did in the past. Howeve...
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Line 1, column 141, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...d less books than they did in the past. However the professor does not look at it as pe...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...intellectual aspects of the society. The other belief that is explained in the r...
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Line 5, column 174, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...t as culturally valuable as literature. The professor disputes this idea and remind...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => 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: 1079.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 221.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88235294118 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64101487362 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533936651584 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 334.8 419.366225166 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 44.7045858945 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.875 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.625 21.698381199 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.875 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.18425802496 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0832056625651 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0670388777857 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112230185038 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0687546260094 0.0443174109184 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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