The reading and the lecture are both about that nowadays people are reading less than in the past, which have some negative consequences. The author believes that the effects of reading less literature or poems could decline the culture in general. The professor brings into question the claims made in the article. He considers that it is not true that reading less is affecting the culture, and even he highlights the good points of this fact.
First, the author comes up with the idea that the intellectual stimulation could be threatened because of reading less literature. It is mentioned that literature makes people more imaginative. However, the lecturer argues that there is no reason to believe that just with literature you can build up the imagination, so there are more kinds of books to go through where you can find out how to blow up your mind.
Second, the author states that people are drawn about self-help books now, as a result, they do not worry about reading novels because they have other sources of entertainment such as TV, Music, and among others. Meanwhile, the professor rebuts this argument by pointing out that we find in music or movies some values and thus understand the real meaning of the new culture, which provides more available sources of information.
Finally, the author contends that literature is not much appreciated today by people. Furthermore, there is no support for some good writers and for that poor texts are coming out for readers. The professor, on the other hand, posits that today there is more support than previously and therefore more books as well. He puts forth the idea that these days past literature is difficult to understand, so people prefer more concise and well-explained literature.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 250, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, in general, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1474.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03071672355 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63011748171 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542662116041 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0299830648 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.384615385 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5384615385 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7692307692 7.06452816374 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.408997393001 0.272083759551 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137546697513 0.0996497079465 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0735058461351 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230592584289 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.058899245454 0.0443174109184 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.