The article states that people are reading far less literature than before and this has unfortunate effects and provides three reasons for support. However, the professor explains that it is true that people reading fewer poems and novels but they read other books and pay attention to another medium as well as literature and she refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading states that While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. The professor refutes this point by stating that people read other books such as science writing or history and politics book which doesn't mean that these books don't stimulate the imagination.
Second, the article claims that there are other problems with not reading the literature such as something that people read and watch instead. The author states that many people are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page which these have lowered level of culture in general. However, the professor contends that the culture is changed and it includes movies and songs which improve the level of culture.
Third, the reading avers that publishers do less invest and support fewer serious writers. The lecture opposes this point by saying that it is true that they do less support literature now but it's not the reader's fault and it's authors fault. She also states that they write something that is hard to understand.
- TOEFL T P O 25 - Integrated Writing Task 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 60
- Agnostids were a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago. Agnostid fossils can be found in rocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know that agnostids were primitive arthropods-relatives of modern- 80
- Because the world is changing so quickly, people now are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than people were in the past. 66
- Most advertisements make products seem much better than they really are. 60
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 377, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ting or history and politics book which doesnt mean that these books dont stimulate th...
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Line 3, column 406, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...book which doesnt mean that these books dont stimulate the imagination. Second, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, third, well, while, in general, such as, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 13.0 30.3222958057 43% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1318.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0888030888 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37955644494 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.517374517375 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.2053226051 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.818181818 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5454545455 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.27272727273 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.32984805798 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125074079872 0.0996497079465 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929956575183 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202210011814 0.162205337803 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0942044760775 0.0443174109184 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
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: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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