According to the passage, the television appearances of professors are of great benefit to the professors themselves as well as to their universities and to the general public. However, the speaker in the lecture contradicts the passage by giving the following points on this topic.
Firstly, the passage mentions that TV appearance of professor will benefit them enhancing their scholarly importance. However, the speaker says that appearing on the television is not good for the professor themselves as it may affect their credibility among their peers. The peers may not regard them as scholarly and the professor may not be recognized in professional gatherings. Further, because of this decline in his/her credibility the professor may also not receive the grant for their research and it may hamper their career.
Secondly, the passage says that TV appearance of professor will enhance the university reputation. But, the speaker mentions that television appearance of the professor is not good for the university either. As, the time the professor spends in traveling and making an appearance on TV is the time lost from doing the research or teaching the students. The university would have benefitted more in this way instead of the TV appearance that benefits no one.
Thirdly, the speaker suggests that the TV appearance of the professor is not good for the general public either. As, the professor may not be giving an indepth knowledge on a subject on TV appearance and the superficial knowledge may not benefit the public. Furthermore, the speaker says that such superficial knowledge could also be given by a reporter that has some research on a topic on their own and so a professor may not be needed.
Therefore, the speaker in the lecture opposes the points made in the passage about the benefits of TV appearance of professor for the professor, university and the general public.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 162, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ell as to their universities and to the general public. However, the speaker in the lecture co...
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Line 4, column 91, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ce of the professor is not good for the general public either. As, the professor may not be gi...
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Line 5, column 165, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...r for the professor, university and the general public.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, well, as to, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14516129032 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90552776123 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.393548387097 0.540411800872 73% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 493.2 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.0507121694 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 113.928571429 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1428571429 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.141748247522 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710297932394 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0371310053694 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102912021495 0.162205337803 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0232093740289 0.0443174109184 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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