A recent study reveals that people, especially young people, are reading far less literature—novels, plays, and poems—than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for the future of literature itself.
While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So by reading less literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits.
Unfortunately, missing out on the benefits of literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead? Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best sellers. These are usually superficial, poorly written, and intellectually undemanding. Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general.
The trend of reading less literature is all the more regrettable because it is taking place during a period when good literature is being written. There are many talented writers today, but they lack an audience. This fact is bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. Thus, the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today's readers.
The lecturer says that without literature reading, it is still possible to keep the culture in general which is quite contrast to the view taken in the passage. Countering every reason taken in the passage, the speaker provides a genuine reason to doubt the argument.
First, the reading blames the contemporary people for the decrease in involvement in creativity by not reading novels and poetry which are full of creative imagination. However, the speaker turns down the point by saying that science, political analysis, history, etc are creative enough to explore creativity and widen the imagination of what passage suggests the only novel does.
Second, music and movie are more influenced by cultural perception; they show the culture more direct way to the audience. As culture has many means of expression, it is needless to say, the assumption of only literature conveys culture is totally unwarranted.
At last, according to the speaker, the reason behind people not reading literature as often as in the past is completely due to the difficult presentation of the literature by the author. Its difficulty is the main reason for the detesting of the reader in the literature. Furthermore, even the people of the past would not have read a novel if it was as obscure as it is todays.
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- TOEFL T P O 4 - Integrated Writing Task 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Because the world is changing so quickly, people now are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than people were in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
- do you agree or disagree with the following statement technology has made children less creative than they were in the past Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 43
- Workers are more satisfied when they have many different types of tasks to do during the workday than when they do similar tasks all day long. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
- QUESTIONSummarize the points in the lecture, being sure to explain how they address the specific ideas about solar energy described in the reading passage. 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 139, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun means seems to be countable; consider using: 'many means'.
Suggestion: many means
...ect way to the audience. As culture has many means of expression, it is needless to say, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, still, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1085.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 215.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04651162791 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82921379641 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80779260219 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.562790697674 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 351.0 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => 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: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.8667533754 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.555555556 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8888888889 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88888888889 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146278697347 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.058750617112 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0371706167853 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0795836709953 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0237315577612 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 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.