INtegrated essay from official guide to toefl test ETS. "Appearance of professors on television"
The reading passage informs about the different types of benefits gained if professors make guest appearances on television to give expert commentary on some of the events of the world. However, the lecturer in the recording strongly disagrees with this idea and clearly articulates herself and her reasons.
The first thing that she says to eradicate the foundation of the reading passage is that it is not good for the professor from a professional point of view to appear as a guest on a television program. The reason behind this is that if a professor comes on television, other scholars will think of him as a facetious candidate who is not serious in his works and assume that he is someone who prioritizes entertainment over actual research. Other scholars in the field might not invite him to various seminars and discussions and this results in the overall reduction in respect of the professor who made appearance on television.
In addition to that, the reading passage states that the university and the students benefit from the professor who appears on television programs. The lecturer in the recording disagrees with this statement by positing that the professor will waste a lot of his time by being on television. There are a number of things to be done- preparing content, rehearsing, commuting and looking good for the show. These tasks might use most of the time of the professor and this might result in the students being affected because the professor will not be able to give them the time they deserve to solve problems and clarify doubts.
And finally, as per the reading passage, the professor, by being on television, is beneficial to the public since they get to learn a lot of new stuff. But according to the lecturer in the recording, this is not the case since most of the television networks do not want any serious academic content on their channels but rather, only the academic titles to lure the public and increase overall revenue. The lecturer thinks that the material presented on the television channel will not be as informative as the author of the reading passage thinks. Other than that, the lecturer states that it does not have to be a professor to appear on television. Any person with a little bit of preparation can inform the public regarding the events of the world and all the social and historic importance that comes with it.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 154, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...television to give expert commentary on some of the events of the world. However, the lectu...
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Line 7, column 671, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...appear on television. Any person with a little bit of preparation can inform the public re...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, look, regarding, so, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 30.3222958057 211% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1984.0 1373.03311258 144% => OK
No of words: 408.0 270.72406181 151% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86274509804 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69743281489 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46568627451 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 621.0 419.366225166 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 44.7628672642 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.714285714 110.228320801 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1428571429 21.698381199 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.154610900557 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636155924637 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.058241821173 0.0662205650399 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103964626195 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0226355613041 0.0443174109184 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.3589403974 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.5 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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