The writer refers to a recent research which shows a decline in reading literature among people and mentions several drawbacks as the consequence of such a phenomenon. The professor in the lecture agrees with the fact that there has been a decrease in reading literature, but casts doubt on the results which the writer mentions.
First of all, the professor points out that literature is not the only type of books which is well written and can stimulate imagination. According to the professor, there have been several excellent-quality reading materials in other fields such as science or history, which are intellectually beneficial. However, the writer states that literature materials are the exclusive form that can be intellectual stimulation.
Furthermore, the lecturer challenges the point in the passage that recent songs and movies are lowering the level of the culture. Instead, she claims that not only aren't they harmful to society, but most of them are of great values as well. The professor alleges that we have to agree that the culture has changed, and other elements can contribute to enhance it besides written forms.
Finally, the lecturer opposes the claim in the reading that readers are the primary cause of the decrease in the number of contemporary high caliber literature. In contrast, she has a notion that the difficulty in the language the writers use is the main reason which people are avoiding to pay attention to recent types of literature. Even early people would refuse to adopt recent materials if they were exposed to these challenging literature, she claimed.
- TOEFL T P O 14 - Integrated Writing Task 3
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- Technology made children less creative than past 78
- TPO-11 - Independent Writing Task Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with?Use specific reasons and examples to support you 83
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 165, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...ture. Instead, she claims that not only arent they harmful to society, but most of th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, well, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1349.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 260.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18846153846 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84181321815 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546153846154 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 427.5 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.1187628366 49.2860985944 45% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 122.636363636 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6363636364 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.09090909091 7.06452816374 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.246021920452 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0905930797644 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515706911955 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147684735042 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0671497162345 0.0443174109184 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => 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: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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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