READING
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 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.
LISTENING SCRIPT
Lately, we’ve been seeing some professors on television. Though it’s sometimes claimed to be a good thing, we should question whether anybody really benefits from it. First of all, it’s not good for the professors themselves—not from a professional standpoint. Rightly or wrongly, a professor who appears on TV tends to get the reputation among fellow professors of being someone who is not a serious scholar— someone who chooses to entertain rather than to educate. And for that reason, TV professors may not be invited to important conferences—important meetings to discuss their academic work. They may even have difficulty getting money to do research. So for professors, being a TV celebrity has important disadvantages. A second point is that being on TV can take a lot of a professor’s time—not just the time on TV but also time figuring out what to present and time spent rehearsing, travel time, even time getting made up to look good for the cameras. And all this time comes out of the time the professor can spend doing research, meeting with students, and attending to university business. So you can certainly see there are problems for the university and its students when professors are in the TV studio and not on campus. So who does benefit? The public? That’s not so clear either. Look, professors do have a lot of knowledge to offer, but TV networks don’t want really serious in-depth academic lectures for after-dinner viewing. What the networks want is the academic title, not the intellectual substance. The material that professors usually present on TV—such as background on current events, or some brief historical introduction to a new movie version of a great literary work—this material is not much different from what viewers would get from a TV reporter who had done a little homework.
The passage and the lecturer discusses about the outcomes, when a professor appears on a T.V. In the passage, it is stated that the professor benefits a lot by appearing as a guest on T.V news program as they acquire reputation and publicity. But, the lecturer disagrees with the view mentioned in the passage.
First, she states that a professor never benefits from appearing as a guest on T.V as it hinders their professionality. It does not seem good for a professor to appear on T.V, because it appears that the professor is not serious. It appears that the professor is doing such events for entertainment. This leads to the shortage of money on research as they are not provided with enough money questioning their seriousness. In addition, they are not invited for the meetings related to academic work and important conferences.
Second, the professor wastes to much of time on traveling, discussing about the content to be delivered, looking good on T.V. where this time can be used in research and meetings with their student.
Third, the professor argues that even the public do not benefit from these events. She states that the content delivered are on topics like feedback on current events. These topics can be deilvered by the T.V reporters as well by rehearsing for a while.
Thus, the professor argues that for a professor to appear on television news program do not benfit anyone. It leads to unprofessionality of the professor assumuing him to be not serious and thus not inviting him for important events. In addition, the professor wastes their time in such events which can be given for their research. It does not even benefit the public, as the topics are not discussed in depth.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, look, second, so, third, thus, well, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1382.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74914089347 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7209595085 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.40206185567 0.540411800872 74% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 430.2 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.23620309051 12% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 13.0662251656 8% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 291.0 21.2450331126 1370% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.2860985944 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1382.0 110.228320801 1254% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 291.0 21.698381199 1341% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 67.0 7.06452816374 948% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347310997254 0.272083759551 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.347310997254 0.0996497079465 349% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208305462237 0.162205337803 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.116601550102 0.0443174109184 263% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 146.4 13.3589403974 1096% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -215.43 53.8541721854 -400% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 5.55761589404 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 115.6 11.0289183223 1048% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 11.75 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 21.0 8.42419426049 249% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 54.0 10.7273730684 503% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 118.4 10.498013245 1128% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 54.0 11.2008830022 482% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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