The reading and lecture are both about professors appearing on television. The author of the reading feels that there are numerous benefits that come from a professor’s appearance on television. The lecturer challenges these claims by the author. She is of the opinion that the benefits are to be questioned.
To begin with, the author argues that professors can gain a better stance in the academic field by appearing on TV. The article mentions that more people and scholars can learn about the professor’s work and research. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that appearing on TV might garner the professor’s reputation as not serious and more entertaining. Additionally, she says that the professor may lose invitation to conferences and meeting, and funds for research due to their reputation.
Secondly, the writer suggests that universities also gains advantages from professors’ appearances. In the article, it is said that people will hold high regard to the university the professor is from, which will then bring in more donations and pupils. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning preparing for television takes up most of the professor’s time. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that this period of time could be used for researching and teaching, making it a loss on the universities’ end.
Finally, the author posits that the public also reaps benefits from the appearances. Moreover, in the article it is stated that professors appearing on television give viewers the opportunity to learn directly from scholars. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is that television studios do not mean for their shows to be serious, and that they want the professors’ titles rather than their knowledge. She notes that the content the professors show on television could also come from a well-prepared reporter.
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 196, 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.
...a professor’s appearance on television. The lecturer challenges these claims by the...
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Line 3, column 425, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...this by bringing up the point that this period of time could be used for researching and teach...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, well, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1592.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32441471572 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08004059023 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52508361204 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.352084513 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.6470588235 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5882352941 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238501009204 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773913262413 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0453944297076 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144364617242 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0347577671284 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.28 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 196, 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.
...a professor’s appearance on television. The lecturer challenges these claims by the...
^^^
Line 3, column 425, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...this by bringing up the point that this period of time could be used for researching and teach...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, well, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1592.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32441471572 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08004059023 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52508361204 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.352084513 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.6470588235 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5882352941 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238501009204 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773913262413 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0453944297076 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144364617242 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0347577671284 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.28 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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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.