The reading and the lecture are both about the appearance of professors on television. The author of the reading feels that there is a myriad of benefits from professor’s appearance on TV shows. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is on the opinion that there are not true benefits.
To begin with, the author argues that when professors appears on shows, they gain reputation from people that are out of research field, enhancing his reputation as a scholar. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that this does not look good for his professional career. Other colleagues may think him as a celebrity and not really a serious academic. Therefore, she says that the professor would be less likely to be invited to academic meetings and receives less money to research.
Secondly, the writer suggests that Universities also benefit by receiving publicity from the professor’s appearance on television, leading to more donations and getting more applications from potential students. The lecturer, however, rebuts this mentioning that when the professors goes to such programs, they often spend a lot of time out of the university; therefore, not doing their academic work. She elaborates on this bringing up the point that students will not have access to office hours as they would if he had to stay on campus.
Finally, the author posits that the public gains from his appearance on media. Moreover, it is stated in the article that the general population will have the chance to learn from experts at topics that they might have never heard before. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that the topics on tv shows are usually superficial. He notes that the media usually wants something simple and not serious. They often want the tittle and not the content.
- Children over the age of 15 should be allowed to vote. 70
- When schools do not have enough funding or teachers, some people think physical education classes should be cut, while others believe that courses in art and music should be eliminated first. Which do you think is preferable, and why? 70
- Reading is more educational than watching television or movies. 66
- Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- Reading is more educational than watching television or movies. 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 201, 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.
...rofessor's appearance on TV shows. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1533.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 301.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09302325581 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7830459885 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558139534884 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.2163468714 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.1764705882 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7058823529 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11764705882 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.297282378361 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0853278424998 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122942474634 0.0662205650399 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188231022971 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0896656594295 0.0443174109184 202% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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