Essay topics:
Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in the world. These television appearances are of great benefit to the professors themselves as well as to their universities and the general public. Professors benefit from appearing on television because by doing so they acquire reputations as authorities in their academic fields among a much wider audience than they have on campus. If a professor publishes views in an academic journal, only other scholars will learn about and appreciate those views. But when a professor appears on TV, thousands of people outside the narrow academic community become aware of the professor’s ideas. So when professors share their ideas with a television audience, the professors’ importance as scholars is enhanced. Universities also benefit from such appearances. The universities receive positive publicity when their professors appear on TV. When people see a knowledgeable faculty member of a university on television, they think more highly of that university. That then leads to an improved reputation for the university. And that improved reputation in turn leads to more donations for the university and more applications from potential students. Finally, the public gains from professors’ appearing on television. Most television viewers normally have no contact with university professors. When professors appear on television, viewers have a chance to learn from experts and to be exposed to views they might otherwise never hear about. Television is generally a medium for commentary that tends to be superficial, not deep or thoughtful. From professors on television, by contrast, viewers get a taste of real expertise and insight.
The reading and the lecture are both about effects of television appearances of the professors on themselves, the university and the general public. The author of the article feels that the professors appearing on television has positive outcomes. The lecture disputes the claim made in the article. Her position is that no one is benefited from professors appearing on television.
First of all, according to the reading, professors importance as scholar is enhanced. The article mentions that television appearances help them share information with thousands of people outside the narrow academic community, not limiting to onlu scholars. The specific argument is challanged by the lecturer. She claims that a professional standpoint, professors are not actually benefited. Additionally, she points out that such television appearances deter the reputation amongst other academic colleges, resulting in him/her considered as not serious. Also, this might result in not receving invitations to important conferences and less money for research.
Secondly, the author suggests that university benfit from professor appearing on television. In the article, it is said that people think more highly of a university leading to improved reputation, more donations and more applications. The lecturer, however, asserts that it is univeristy who is at loss, when much time of it's professor is wasted on preparing, travelling, etc. for television shows. She goes on to say that this time could potentially have been effitively for research or educating the students.
Finally, the author posits that viewer get to learn from experts instead of superficial banal reporting of television anchors. The author contends that such commentry is the only mwthod for them to gain access to expertise and insight, which previously they had no access. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is that television industry inherently do not want serious academic opinions, they aim for catchy titles diluting the substance. She also notes that the brief succint background, or introdcution provided by professors could invariably be delivered by TV reporter with little efforts.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 134, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...s on themselves, the university and the general public. The author of the article feels that t...
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Line 1, column 249, 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.
...ng on television has positive outcomes. The lecture disputes the claim made in the ...
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Line 7, column 291, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
...ly they had no access. In contrast, the lecturers stance is that television industry inhe...
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Line 7, column 545, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ovided by professors could invariably be delivered by TV reporter with little eff...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1835.0 1373.03311258 134% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.62883435583 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01974040235 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59509202454 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0842052605 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5789473684 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1578947368 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84210526316 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216044691578 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0618858976518 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0437961756763 0.0662205650399 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130412019822 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360793589114 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.81 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 63.6247240618 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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