People are reading less literature. Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading.
The reading and the lecture both discuss the claim that people are reading less literature than they used to. While the former states that this is not good for the population, the latter casts doubts on the assumptions made in the lecture as it will be described in the following paragraphs.
First of all, the author suggests that reading less literature implies the loss of benefits that reading brings, such as imagination, empathy, and our understanding of the language. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He says that a book does not have to be literature to be intellectually demanding. For example, there are many science books that offer stimulation, and that she considers good readings because they also help to develop our creativity.
Second, the writer contends that instead of literature books, people are reading superficial, poorly written, and intellectually undemanding books. Additionally, they prefer to watch television or music videos; activities that lower the level of culture of the population. The lecturer, on the other hand, poses that those activities mentioned in the reading improve our culture, which is constantly changing.
Third, it is stated in the article that good literature is being ignored, and that population is supporting less serious authors. This has increased the quantity of low standards books. The professor, however, affirms that readers are not to blame, but the authors, who have declined their writing abilities.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, third, while, for example, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1255.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 233.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38626609442 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90696013833 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89828297581 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.605150214592 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 378.9 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.910287785 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.583333333 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4166666667 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.179852919926 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0569803979415 0.0996497079465 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0502631425666 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107534363374 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0699337710158 0.0443174109184 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
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: 13.98 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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