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In order for any work of art—for example, a film, a novel, a poem, or a song—to have merit, it
must be understandable to most people.
The speaker’s assertion that art must be widely understood to have merit is wrongheaded. The speaker misunderstands the final objective of art, which has little to do with cognitive “understanding.”
First consider the musical art form. The fact that the listener must “understand” the composer’s artistic expression without the benefit of words or visual images forces us to ask: “What is there to understand in the first place?” Of course, the listener can always struggle to appreciate how the musical piece employs various harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic principles.
Yet it w...
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Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 587 350
No. of Characters: 2826 1500
No. of Different Words: 272 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.922 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.814 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.742 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 140 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 70 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.48 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.358 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.56 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.565 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5