Both the reading and the lecture discuss whether '' online encyclopedias are beneficial or not. The reading claims that online encyclopedias have some negative effects when compare with traditional encyclopedias. Nevertheless, the listener disagrees, it states that the the reading passage has ignored the benefits that digital sources offer to us.
In the first place, the reading says that online encyclopedias are not accurate because anyone can make changes to the existent information. The listener disagrees, she claims that all educational sources have writing errors, but the difference is that errors might be fixed in digital encyclopedias, whereas traditional cannot be edited.
Second, the reading posits that hackers and people with bad intention might change and damages the information of online encyclopedias. Notwithstanding, the listener doesn't support this point, she explains that not all the information online can be changed. There are some parts such as evaluated data from original users that cannot. In addition, digital encyclopedias have people monitoring the changes made by online users, so they identify if the data is accurate.
Third, the reading says that digital encyclopedias ignored important facts and make more emphasis on minor details. On the contrary, the listener states that digital encyclopedias offer a wide variety of topics to users because there is not a limit of space. Thus, users might have access to different data in deed, the same cannot be provided in traditional encyclopedias.
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when compare with traditional encyclopedias
when compared with traditional encyclopedias
there is not a limit of space.
there is no limit of space.
Sentence: Nevertheless, the listener disagrees, it states that the the reading passage has ignored the benefits that digital sources offer to us.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 22 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 12
No. of Words: 234 250
No. of Characters: 1268 1200
No. of Different Words: 122 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.911 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.419 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.907 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.406 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.418 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.615 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4