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 future of literature itself.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast
doubt on speclflc points made in the reading passage.
The reading passage and the article discuss the decline of reading literature among young people and consequences of that. The writer states that such trend leads to disaster in such spheres of life, as culture, future of literature and readers themselves. The lecturer disagrees with this point of view and describes the reasons, why decrease of reading is not so critically.
First of all, the article mentions that the decline of reading novels, plays, and poems, decrease the development of intellect, which is serious problem for young people. However, the speaker argues that there is a large number of high quality political and historical literature, which is as creative, as novels, plays, and poems. So such books could provide the intellectual stimulation too.
Secondly, the passage presumes that young people do not read literature and switching to horrible written books, TV shows or serving on internet. The lecturer, on the other hand, contends that the level of culture can not drop if a person listen to incredible music or watch good movies. This way of entertainment could change a lot in people’s culture for the better.
And finally, the author of the article claims that, because of declining of the reading, talented writers can not get financial help of the publishers since less people want to read serious novels. Nonetheless, the speaker explains that it is fault of those authors. Nowadays he writers get less support because they make a literature that is really difficult to understand, so young readers do not have a desire to buy such books.
- As the population grows the number of cars goes up Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages 89
- While the reading believes that the sea otters are disappearing because of environmental pollution the lecturer thinks that predation is the main reason for the sea otter s decline 68
- The graph shows the number of complaints about noise to the administration of Newtown between 1980 and 1996 67
- Do you think it is better to start learning a new language as an infant as a child or as a teenager Provide reasons and examples to support your stance 73
- Mobile apps help learn languages To what extent do you agree 89
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 258, 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.
...e of literature and readers themselves. The lecturer disagrees with this point of v...
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Line 2, column 214, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...wever, the speaker argues that there is a large number of high quality political and historical l...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 158, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... financial help of the publishers since less people want to read serious novels. Non...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, nonetheless, really, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.0 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 1.00243902439 399% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 6.8 162% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 3.15609756098 349% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 16.0 5.60731707317 285% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 33.7804878049 89% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 965.302439024 137% => OK
No of words: 259.0 196.424390244 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10810810811 4.92477711251 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 3.73543355544 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68015414647 2.65546596893 101% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 106.607317073 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.547539520022 104% => OK
syllable_count: 396.9 283.868780488 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.33902439024 207% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.482926829268 621% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 3.36585365854 59% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 8.94146341463 134% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4079887591 43.030603864 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.25 112.824112599 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5833333333 22.9334400587 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.58333333333 5.23603664747 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 1.69756097561 177% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 1.13902439024 439% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264117874333 0.215688989381 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0872308565432 0.103423049105 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072894992348 0.0843802449381 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150946448364 0.15604864568 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516205871483 0.0819641961636 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 61.2550243902 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 11.4140731707 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.06136585366 108% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 40.7170731707 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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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.