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 states that nowadays young people are reading less literatures like novels, plays, and poems. Which leads to disadvantages in reading public, culture, future of literature. However, the professor disagree with each point made in passage.
Firstly, the reading claims that only literature provides us a intellectual stimulation and development of imagination which other medium could not provide. The teacher refutes this opinion by stating that there exist other forms of reading like science, political writing which is equally important as literatures; these other forms of reading also helps to develop our imagination as well as ability of stimulating intellectual.
Secondly, the text suggest that diverting time from literature reading to watching TV or video will result in lowering the level of culture. In contradiction, the teacher explains that watching movie or video which are equivalent in knowledge will not be considered as a lowering of culture. Even, the movie or video will provide more valuable information which reading can not provide.
third, the reading claims that the future of literature is in danger because of decline in numbers of readers. However, the professor contends that it's more fault of author's than the readers; who are developing material which is difficult to understand. Additionally, old people also rejecting this new literarture.
To sum up, the passage and the professor holds conflicting views.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 59, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun literatures is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... that nowadays young people are reading less literatures like novels, plays, and poe...
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Line 3, column 62, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...claims that only literature provides us a intellectual stimulation and developmen...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Third
...ation which reading can not provide. third, the reading claims that the future of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, well, as well as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1243.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57399103139 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90333724704 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.587443946188 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 388.8 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.9324648646 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.583333333 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5833333333 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.58333333333 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17288389382 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687216838928 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0594158619787 0.0662205650399 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0922568896975 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0659745075073 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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.