The reading passage states that there is a decline in reading the literature. However, the lecturer says that there' no real decline
The lecture and the reading passage are about whether a trend in reading less literature in public, is negative or not. The speaker casts doubt on the points made in the lecture. In fact, the professor suggests that the fact that people read less books not necessarily has the adverse impact on society. She feels this way giving the following reasons.
First, the professor questions the point of the reading passage that only books foster an imagination ability. She suggests that there are other forms of reading, such as a political analysis or a science book, that exercises the way we imagine things.
Second, the point of the reading of low-quality forms of entertainment degrading modern society, is challenged by the lecturer. The speaker states that non-literate means of art including movies do not exert a negative impact on people.
Finally, the speaker contradicts the point of the lecture blaming the low reading level on general scale that caused a decline in support of publishing books written by serious writers. In fact, she makes a claim that serious literature samples were not either read earlier, because they were difficult to be understood.
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- A recent study reveals that people especially young people are reading far less literature novels plays and poems than they used to This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public for culture In general and for the futur 84
- The pie charts provide information on how money was spent by an American average household in 1970 and in 2004 89
- Some people believe that children should spend all of their free time with their families Others believe that this is unnecessary or even negative Discuss the possible argument on both sides and say which side you personally support 89
- The maps show the development of the seaside resort of Templeton over the span of 15 years from 1990 to 2005 67
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 243, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun books is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...suggests that the fact that people read less books not necessarily has the adverse i...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, so, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => 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: 980.0 1373.03311258 71% => OK
No of words: 192.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10416666667 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72241943641 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63514903121 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 145.348785872 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.588541666667 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 300.6 419.366225166 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.4010695034 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.254417166645 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089735362329 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0917071090131 0.0662205650399 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139118676989 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594149754909 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 243, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun books is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...suggests that the fact that people read less books not necessarily has the adverse i...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, so, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => 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: 980.0 1373.03311258 71% => OK
No of words: 192.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10416666667 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72241943641 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63514903121 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 145.348785872 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.588541666667 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 300.6 419.366225166 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.4010695034 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.254417166645 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089735362329 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0917071090131 0.0662205650399 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139118676989 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594149754909 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.