Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in the world. These television appearances are of great benefit to the professors themselves as well as to their universities and the general public.
Professors benefit from appearing on television because by doing so they acquire reputations as authorities in their academic fields among a much wider audience than they have on campus. If a professor publishes views in an academic journal, only other scholars will learn about and appreciate those views. But when a professor appears on TV, thousands of people outside the narrow academic community become aware of the professor’s ideas. So when professors share their ideas with a television audience, the professors’ importance as scholars is enhanced.
Universities also benefit from such appearances. The universities receive positive publicity when their professors appear on TV. When people see a knowledge- able faculty member of a university on television, they think more highly of that university. That then leads to an improved reputation for the university. And that improved reputation in turn leads to more donations for the university and more applications from potential students.
Finally, the public gains from professors’ appearing on television. Most tele- vision viewers normally have no contact with university professors. When professors appear on television, viewers have a chance to learn from experts and to be exposed to views they might otherwise never hear about. Television is generally a medium for commentary that tends to be superficial, not deep or thoughtful. From professors on television, by contrast, viewers get a taste of real expertise and insight.
The reading passage and the lecture are both about the appearance of university professors on television. The author believes that having scholars appear on television shows is beneficial for the scholar, the scholar's university and the public as well. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the arguments made in the article.
First of all, the author argues that the academic importance of the professor is enhanced when he or she appears on television to a much larger audience than academic circles. On the other hand, the lecturer points out that appearing on T.V. is actually not good for the professor. She further explains that this could hurt the professor's reputation among fellow professors. They might think of the celebrity professor as someone who chooses entertaining rather than educating. As a result, this scholar might lose invitations to important conferences and also it could be hard for a professor with a compromised reputation to get money to do research.
Second, the reading passage proposes that the professor's university could also get positive publicity because people, who see the professor on T.V., would think more highly of that university. Consequently, the university reputation would be improved and they would receive more donations and more students would want to enroll in this university. Nevertheless, the lecturer is of a different opinion on that. She indicates that spending time on television programs will not allow the professor to do research or even meet with students and this is going to be a major disadvantage.
Lastly, the author holds that the public will benefit through exposure to in-depth analysis, real expertise and insight. In contrast, the lecturer doubts the validity of this argument. She assumes that T.V. networks are not really interested in a serious academic perspective for an after-dinner viewing. The audience is much more focused on the academic title rather than the intellectual substance. In addition, the lecturer elaborates more that a T.V. reporter can simply do the job with a bit of research on the subject, especially that sometimes, the professor is only required to give a brief introduction to a historical movie based on a literary work
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 210, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'scholars'' or 'scholar's'?
Suggestion: scholars'; scholar's
...hows is beneficial for the scholar, the scholars university and the public as well. Howe...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...rther explains that this could hurt the professors reputation among fellow professors. The...
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Line 5, column 443, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to entertain'.
Suggestion: to entertain
...ebrity professor as someone who chooses entertaining rather than educating. As a result, thi...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
..., the reading passage proposes that the professors university could also get positive publ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...istorical movie based on a literary work
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, first, however, if, lastly, nevertheless, really, second, so, well, in addition, in contrast, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1885.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 356.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29494382022 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92614127129 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51404494382 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 419.366225166 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9798793338 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.882352941 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9411764706 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.88235294118 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249046391685 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.075419634829 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0446540074758 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151326557992 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0272713524651 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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