The topic is about the online encyclopedias. The reading passage listed three drawbacks of online encyclopedias compared to traditional one. These three disadvantages are reputed by the lecture respectfully.
First, the reading passage indicates that online encyclopedias are inaccurate because of the lack of academic credentials while traditional one are written by experts. However, the lecture argues that no encyclopedia is perfect, neither online or traditional version. It's much easier for online version to correct errors than the traditional one.
Second, the reading passage concerns about some unofficial users compromising the original content of the online encyclopedias. In the lecture the professor provides two ways to protect original content of online version from being corrupted. The first one is to have the crucial elements of the original content unchangeable by putting them into a format that no one can change. The second solution is to have a special editor monitoring the content. They are responsible for correcting and deleting those information that is being changed.
Third, the reading passage criticized the focus of the online encyclopedias, which may mislead the population. However, the professor regards this feature as a huge advantage of online version as the great range of information accurately reflect the diversity of the population interest, while the traditional encyclopedias only contains what experts think is important.
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while traditional one are written by experts
while traditional ones are written by experts
neither online or traditional version.
neither online nor traditional version.
either online or traditional version.
encyclopedias only contains what experts think is important.
encyclopedias only contain what experts think is important.
flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Words: 219 250
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 23 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 12
No. of Words: 219 250
No. of Characters: 1229 1200
No. of Different Words: 116 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.847 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.612 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.02 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.846 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.853 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.393 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.598 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4