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.
Both the reading and lecture discuss about decline in reading of literature among young people. The former argues that there are three possible effects on public, for culture and for future of literature due to diminishing of literature, but latter challenges each of these points.
First of all, the author in the passage asserts that decline in literature decreases the intellectual power of people due to lack in exercising of imagination and narrow our comprehending ability. However, the professor in lecture contends that unlike literature, there are enormous high-quality books which enhance the innovative power of human. For example, science books, political analysis books are creative books which really more adeptness than those literature one that booms of mind.
Secondly, according to the passage, the expert opined that shifting from literature to unnecessary forms of entertainment has great impact on culture. In contrast, the lecture strongly objects this idea, and she counters that value culture has just changes in different way, rather than decreasing. not She supports for argument by presenting the example of music, movies presented the culture in creative ways than novel which helps to preserve in innovative way.
Finally, the passage claims that because of poor understanding ability and standard of audience there is diminishing in readers. Nevertheless, like two suggestions before, the professor in her lecture proclaims that this recommendation is not feasible because there are huge flaws in today's author as comparison to earlier one. For instance, early literature provides reasons, and reasoning in their literature, but in this era the contemporary author ,lacks in creativeness.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 453, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this literature' or 'those literatures'?
Suggestion: this literature; those literatures
... books which really more adeptness than those literature one that booms of mind. Secondly, ac...
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Line 5, column 300, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Not
... different way, rather than decreasing. not She supports for argument by presenting...
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Line 7, column 452, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... but in this era the contemporary author ,lacks in creativeness.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.62835249042 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91369674964 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597701149425 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 468.9 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.8381061035 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 133.545454545 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7272727273 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.8181818182 7.06452816374 167% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.253439739499 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0831890481943 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657509550219 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148456883251 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0829326727034 0.0443174109184 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 53.8541721854 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.67 12.2367328918 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.86 8.42419426049 117% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.