A recent study reveals that people, especially young people, are reading far less literature—novels, plays, and poems—than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for the future of literature itself.
While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So by reading less literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits.
Unfortunately, missing out on the benefits of literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead? Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best sellers. These are usually superficial, poorly written, and intellectually undemanding. Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general.
The trend of reading less literature is all the more regrettable because it is taking place during a period when good literature is being written. There are many talented writers today, but they lack an audience. This fact is bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. Thus, the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today's readers.
The reading and the lecture are both about the decrease trend of reading literature books in youngsters. The author of the reading believes this trend can be problematic. The lecturer casts doubts on the claims of the article and thinks that it is not a serious issue.
First of all, author points out that reading less literature books can lead to decrease in intellectual ability of young generation. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She argues that instead of novels and poems they do spend time in other non literature books like history, science and politics which are equally brain stimulating and knowledgeable.
Secondly, the author contends that there is a decline in cultural values due to decreased literature reading. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggest that there are a lot of non literature artistic expression like music and movies which can also help to build the cultural values of young people. She elaborated on this by mentioning that a person who listen to good music gets delighted and feel happy same as reading a good literature book.
Finally, the author states that this trend can be harmful to the authors as there will not be much investors to support them. The lecture, on the other hand, posits that writers of this generation do have to be blamed as modern literature is too difficult to understand.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: She
...ngsters are not reading any other books.She argues that instead of novels and poems...
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Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'brained'.
Suggestion: brained
... science and politics which are equally brain stimulating and knowledgeable. Secon...
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Message: The pronoun 'She' must be used with a third-person verb: 'suggests'.
Suggestion: suggests
... The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggest that there are a lot of non literature ...
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Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...ful to the authors as there will not be much investors to support them. The lecture,...
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Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...rstand. She puts forth the idea that as general public is not able to digest the modern litera...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1350.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 273.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94505494505 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65191852172 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520146520147 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 414.9 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.6418362505 49.2860985944 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.846153846 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.46153846154 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.219269381608 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.078534407057 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0461228147228 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135232638322 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327902029613 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 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.