The declining in reading is jeopardizing future generations
The article and the lecture are both about the possible declining of reading in young generations. The author of the passage feels that nowadays, people are reading less than they did in the past, thus provoking unfortunate effects for the culture. However, the lecturer disputes the claims made in the article. Her position is that less reading is not a signal of culture declining and she gives three arguments to hold her opinion.
According to the reading, there has been a noticeable decrease in books reading, especially in literature, due to the low motivation on students on this field. The article mentions that this could evolve in consequences as a poor language comprehension and a lack of empathy with others, therefore causing damage to the future generations. Nevertheless, this specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that is not right to assume that only literature contributes to culture growing by ignoring fields like science, politics, history or art; there are many well-written books about these topics that have a remarkable value for society. Additionally, she points out that a lessening in reading is not a synonym of culture collapse. For example, technology allows people to enrich their culture through the internet, TV or music thereof is wrong to decline all these contemporary ways of learning.
Finally, the author posits that most of the modern literature like self-help books, is shallowness and does not require of a high-educated person to understand it. Because of that, people are just ignoring a large amount of good literature that is being written today, making publishers to stop investing on these amazing writers as much as they did in the past. Consequently, an imninent decline of literature is soon to occur. The lecturer, however, asserts that the lack of an audience in modern well-written literature books is not because of intellectual undemand. Instead, it is due to the difficulty of understanding the ultra high modern standards that are being implemented by contemporary writers, thus, letting young people to avoid reading it.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, however, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1773.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 338.0 270.72406181 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24556213018 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95045778625 2.5805825403 114% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550295857988 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 558.9 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.9887167246 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.2 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5333333333 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.138033998806 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0472941147841 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053828997937 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0981124501485 0.162205337803 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0538352796362 0.0443174109184 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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