The lecture and reading both are discussing the causes for decline in reading literature by younger generation. The professor claims that the decline in reading is not due to poor culture or different forms of entertainment but because of literature written these days and provides three points to explain her assumption.
To begin with, the professor argues that there may be decline in reading literature but not in general reading. People are more tend to read books of science and technology. These are also highly qualitative and do provoke imagination like that of novels. On the other hand, the writer mentions that people don't read any kind of books and the culture is declining.
In addition, the lecturer posits that there is not decrease in cultural value but a change in the values. The other forms of entertainment such as music are equally beneficial to the public. Conversely, the author contends that people are more inclined towards poor forms of entertainment which is responsible for cultural derailment.
Finally, the speaker claims that today's literature is not read by younger generations which is not there fault, instead, the author is responsible for writing such materials that not only younger but also older generation would not read. The literature quality is highly declined. The writer counters this view and states that good literature is being written and they do not get enough support from the publisher as well as the readers. This decline is due to low quality of the readers and not due to authors.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 308, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...r hand, the writer mentions that people dont read any kind of books and the culture ...
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Line 7, column 34, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'todays'' or 'today's'?
Suggestion: todays'; today's
...nt. Finally, the speaker claims that todays literature is not read by younger gener...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, if, may, so, well, in addition, in general, kind of, such as, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1292.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 254.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08661417323 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69412184516 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.377597197 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3846153846 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5384615385 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6153846154 7.06452816374 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.445797463695 0.272083759551 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146710664324 0.0996497079465 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0912420437762 0.0662205650399 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264074130259 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0993933517314 0.0443174109184 224% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => 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: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => 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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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