TPO - writing integrated taskSummarise the points made in the lecture. Be sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage - reduction in literature reading
The reading passage and the lecture are both about the decline in the reading of literature. The lecturer completely refutes the arguments in the article. She argues that these explanations are faulty.
Firstly, the lecture states that other types of subjects such as political or history books are high quality readings. Moreover, they stimulate creativeness in readers. This directly opposes the reading passage that states that nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does.
Secondly, the lecturer explains that spending less time reading literature does not means a reduction the culture itself. Furthermore, listening to music and watching movies is not a waste of time and will not shortened the culture standards. This idea disagrees with the article that states that these are trivial forms of entertainment and reduce the level of culture.
Finally, the lecturer believes that the reduction of supporters to writers is due to author’s fault because they write in a manner that is difficult to readers in general understand it. The reading passage on the other hand, claims that publishers are leaded to invest and support less the writers because the lack in audience for literature.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, in general, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1045.0 1373.03311258 76% => OK
No of words: 191.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47120418848 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77777186906 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 145.348785872 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.575916230366 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 326.7 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => 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: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.7177939196 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3636363636 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.81818181818 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.166254159903 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590150042155 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646369026603 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0959570796236 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.01191293633 0.0443174109184 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.15 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.