It is more important for students to read books about real events than it is for them to read novels.
Some people believe that reading such types of literature as novels have no benefits for our development, especially for students, who are supposed to extend their knowledge in practical matters. However, there are people who consider that novels can be as much informative as books that contain factual information and are based on real events. Personally, I agree with the opinion of the latter group of people. Below I ’ll introduce several strong reasons, supporting my point of view.
First, one has to consider the fact that even though novels are generally seen as reads for entertainment, they still can be very informative, as many novels are based on real historical events. For example, the novel by M. Mitchell “Gone with the wind’ narrated the events of the American Civil War. In fact, the author described those sides of the war that revealed the hardships of common people during the war. M. Mitchell paid close attention to the emotions and thoughts of the characters. In my opinion, such details significantly add to readers’ understanding of how big the tragedy of the war was, which is no less important than just learning some dry facts about the war, listed in history books. Therefore, both the novels and the books with factual information can provide useful knowledge for students.
Second, being aimed to entertain a reader as the novel is, this type of literature is essential to let one take a rest from studies. As a rule, books about real events are included in a studying program. Therefore, students read them in order to memorise as much information as possible, either they analyze the material from those books to write academic papers. Reading only study books can be exhausting and boring, and novels give students a good opportunity to unload their minds from studies. I’m absolutely convinced that reading a novel, even very unserious one, such as romance novel, won’t affect anyone’s productivity.
Finally, it’s not only about the difference in content. The difference in styles of the language, in which novels and history books are written, also matter, when it comes to a comprehension of the material. From my personal experience, I can tell that texts in history books about are easier reads, as they contain a relatively limited amount of vocabulary and have a relatively simple grammatical structure. But, if you take a novel, you’ll find there a range of different lexical forms, as well as comprehensive grammar.
All in all, there’s no doubt in my mind that both novels and books about real events are worth reading for students. As has been noticed, novels can serve as a good resource for learning about real events as well as study books do. Besides, the entertaining function of novels is of less significance for students than the informative one.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, well, as to, for example, in fact, no doubt, such as, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2402.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 468.0 407.700716846 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13247863248 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8375650033 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 212.727598566 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521367521368 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 750.6 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.2069420598 48.9658058833 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.434782609 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.347826087 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.86956521739 5.45110844103 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30018908244 0.236089414692 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913051438639 0.076458572812 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829514520209 0.0737576698707 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189823193772 0.150856017488 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105978292514 0.0645574589148 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 86.8835125448 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.