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.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast
doubt on speclflc points made in the reading passage.
The reading passage and the article discuss a decline in reading literature among young people and its implications. The writer states that this trend has an adverse impact on culture, future of literature, and the readers themselves. However, the lecturer disagrees with this point of view and explains why this tendency is not as critical as it is claimed to be.
First of all, the article states that reading less fiction retards mental development, a serious problem for young people. However, the speaker argues that there is other high quality literature, such as political or historical, which is as creative as novels, plays, and poems. So such books could provide the intellectual stimulation too.
Secondly, the passage presumes that young people do not read literature and switch to badly written books, TV shows, or the internet. The lecturer, on the other hand, contends that the level of culture cannot drop if a person listens to nice music or watches good movies. This way of entertainment is the reflection of culture that is changing, not deteriorating.
Finally, the author claims that because of a decline in the reading, talented writers cannot get financial help of the publishers since fewer people want to read serious novels. Nonetheless, the speaker explains that it is the fault of those authors who write literary works that are difficult to comprehend, so young readers do not have a desire to buy such books.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1213.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 237.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11814345992 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71670329176 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599156118143 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 365.4 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.1796420971 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.272727273 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5454545455 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.45454545455 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226796541226 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759306706425 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0673407784856 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123174119906 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0395428621251 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1213.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 237.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11814345992 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71670329176 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599156118143 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 365.4 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.1796420971 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.272727273 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5454545455 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.45454545455 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226796541226 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759306706425 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0673407784856 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123174119906 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0395428621251 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.