Both the lecture and reading article talk about declining reading habits in people. The passage put forth couple of reasons for the trend and impact of lack of reading on people. The lecture casts doubts on the reasons presented, with supporting arguments.
First, the reading proposes that, today people are preferring poorly written self-help books over a well written literature. Self- help books does not provide any intellectual stimulation. However, the lecture negates the claim by pointing out, science journals, political books are creative, well written. Not just literature but these books too are intellectually demanding.
Next, the reading claims, television, music video, and web page popularity is taking over reading and this trend is unfortunate and the decline in reading habit relates to lowering culture. The lecture makes an argument that, movies, music videos showcases and promotes plenty of cultural values. They do not pose any threat to culture. In addition, these avenues give more freedom of expression than literature.
Lastly, the passage states that, modern writers are very talented but have no audience. Lack of interest in good books, discouraging publishers and seriously affecting good writers. However, the lecture refuses the claim by stating, modern literature is complex to follow. Not everyone enjoys reading challenging novel. In fact, the professor adds, very few people from previous generation will enjoy today's literature.
In conclusion, the lecture disagrees with the reading passage with supporting explanation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...the reading proposes that, today people are preferring poorly written self-help books over a w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, lastly, so, well, in addition, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 7.0 22.412803532 31% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1339.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.69787234043 5.08290768461 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68549412178 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.625531914894 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.7197389183 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.7647058824 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.8235294118 21.698381199 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35294117647 7.06452816374 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.375405241319 0.272083759551 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103527148804 0.0996497079465 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0771088307633 0.0662205650399 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188329839229 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0403391584693 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.82 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.19 12.2367328918 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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