Both the text and the speaker talk about professors taking part on television news programs as guests. The author mentions that this is helpful for professors themselves and the public viewers in general. The women, however, casts doubt on this claim made by the passage. She thinks that it is doubtful whether anyone benefits from such events including professors themselves.
First of all, the text mentions that professors commenting on television shows is beneficial for them in enhancing their reputation as scholars and ultimately leading to good reputation of the university. The speaker refutes this by saying that such professors are considered as not serious by fellow scholars and they may be barred from admission into important conferences and education meetings within university and may get rid of the money they get for the research work. She goes on to mention that the preparing for the news program will take a lot of their time as they need to research on what they are going to present in the program. A lot of time that is wasted in research, presentation and getting dressed up and ready for the program could be utilized for research related to university work and imparting education to the students.
Secondly, the passage states that this will benefit the general public as the viewers have chance to listen to the ideas of the experts on the subject matter directly. The speaker refutes this by mentioning that the television news programs are not interested in the in-depth discussion and presentation of the content. In spite of having academic title, the presentation might be lacking in the actual intellectual content. Such matter, in spite of coming out from an expert would not be much different from the content of a report who has done some research on the topic.
In conclusion, the speaker effectively challenges the claims made in the passage by explaining how professors commenting on television programs as subject matter experts cannot be beneficial to anybody.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 57, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ssage states that this will benefit the general public as the viewers have chance to listen to...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, in general, first of all, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1684.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 330.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10303030303 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75820172715 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49696969697 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 508.5 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0691872522 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.538461538 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3846153846 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61538461538 7.06452816374 108% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154287171885 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566826185031 0.0996497079465 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0287681772727 0.0662205650399 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0908069265683 0.162205337803 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327728818354 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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