The article and the lecture are both about whether or not far less reading by young people has unfortunate effects on today's culture. The author is of the opinion that young people are surely missing out on the benefits of literature. The professor casts doubt on each of the claims presented by the author. She states that the author's proposition is based on several unconscionable assumptions and blaming young minds' for affecting today's culture is purely injudicious.
First of all, the author claims that literature provides the intellectual stimulation. He notes that the current plummet in literature reading is self-explanatory that young minds are missing out vital benefits. However, the point is challenged by the professor. She states that young generation do prefer other genres like science, history, and art over literature, which are equal in quality to that of novels. Furthermore, she points out that these genres do stimulate their imagination and enhance them to empathize with others, and expand their understanding of language.
In addition, the author contends that many people prefer television and music videos over literature. He argues that this digression towards trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general. However, the professor rebuts this argument. She suggests that watching a great movie and listening to a beautiful song would not decline the culture in any way. Moreover, she notes that the culture has changed and there are many other forms of expression that usually speak more about our culture.
Finally, the author mentions that today's talented writers lack audience and support from publishers, and that the value of literature would decline gradually only because of poor standards of today's readers. On the other hand, the professor puts forth the idea that modern authors' writing is obscure and usually difficult to understand. And one should learn the fact that even the early readers (whom the author cites as those who prioritize reading over any other thing) would not have preferred complex language.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 44, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
... article and the lecture are both about whether or not far less reading by young people has un...
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Line 2, column 236, 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.
...sing out on the benefits of literature. The professor casts doubt on each of the cl...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'in addition', 'in general', 'first of all', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.236111111111 0.261695866417 90% => OK
Verbs: 0.172222222222 0.158904122519 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0944444444444 0.0723426182421 131% => OK
Adverbs: 0.05 0.0435111971325 115% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0305555555556 0.0277247811725 110% => OK
Prepositions: 0.138888888889 0.128828473217 108% => OK
Participles: 0.0416666666667 0.0370669169778 112% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.71164038399 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0111111111111 0.0208969081088 53% => OK
Particles: 0.00833333333333 0.00154638098197 539% => OK
Determiners: 0.105555555556 0.128158765124 82% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0111111111111 0.0158828679856 70% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0166666666667 0.0114777025283 145% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2089.0 1645.83664459 127% => OK
No of words: 330.0 271.125827815 122% => OK
Chars per words: 6.3303030303 6.08160592843 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04852973271 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.4 0.374372842146 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.312121212121 0.287516216867 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.190909090909 0.187439937562 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.139393939394 0.113142543107 123% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71164038399 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551515151515 0.539623497131 102% => OK
Word variations: 59.3643081351 53.8517498576 110% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0529801325 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.4117647059 21.7502111507 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5289642805 49.3711431718 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.882352941 132.220823453 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4117647059 21.7502111507 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.705882352941 0.878197800319 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 50.623885918 50.5018328374 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.64835164835 1.90840788429 86% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.641994711173 0.549887131256 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.102108852688 0.142949733639 71% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0714718177261 0.0787303798458 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.554698590582 0.631733273073 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.121460978766 0.139662658121 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.269709731625 0.266732575781 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0954146388002 0.103435571967 92% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.419479981812 0.414875509568 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0133037219371 0.0530846634433 25% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.472795594051 0.40443939384 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432240547842 0.0528353158467 82% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.26048565121 70% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 3.49668874172 229% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.62251655629 138% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 10.2958057395 146% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.