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 passage is about the consequences of declination in the number of people reading literature and how it is affecting the culture in general. However the professor does not agree with the reasoning presented in the text. She casts doubts on each of the theory presented in the reading.
First of all, the text states that in comparison to literature, no other form of book provides same level of intellectual stimulation. In contrast, the professor argues that the books on science and history are as intellectually stimulating as the literature. The books on above mentioned topics also helps people to exercise their imagination in same way as the literature.
Secondly, the passage posits that rather than reading literature people are diverting their time to trivial form of entertainment like television and music videos which has lowered the level of culture in the society. However, the professor contends that declination in number of people reading any kind of books have not resulted in any form of depreciation in the culture. Moreover, she points out that movies and music are alternate medium of expression available nowadays for people to cater to the contemporary needs of the society.
Finally, the text asserts that readers are to be blamed for decreasing trend of reading less literature. Meanwhile, the professor notes that audience is not solely responsible for the aforementioned trend. She elaborates on this by saying that most of the times modern literature is very hard to understand. So, blaming the readers for not being interested in something they do not understand is not justified.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 145, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...it is affecting the culture in general. However the professor does not agree with the r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast, in general, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1363.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22222222222 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96718497365 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540229885057 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6005181312 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.846153846 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0769230769 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23076923077 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.158071095756 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.054774603711 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548665298374 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0908543413122 0.162205337803 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0642076380451 0.0443174109184 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.