Depression
The article states that pills and medications are the best way to fight depression. It also provides three reasons to support the claim. However, the speaker explains that medication is not an answer to depression. He refutes each of reasons used in the text.
To begin with, the writer insists that the reason for depression is a chemical disbalance in the body of a patient. Thus, to heal depression, the balance has to be restored. According to the reading, the only way to do it is to take pills. The lecturer opposes this point by explaining that more reasons play role in causing depression. One of those reasons can be a negative experience instead of chemical disbalance. For instance, the death of relatives may be such experience. As a result, the main problem here is that medication does not help overcome the situation.
What is more, the reading reports that the effectiveness of medication was proven clinically whereas the listening asserts that it is a short-time effect. It is said in the lecture, that depression comes back after completion use of medication pills. According to the speaker, medication ignores the reasons for depression and fights the symptoms only.
In addition, the article claims that it is much easier for a patient to deal with medication over the other ways of curing depression. It is because a patient has to take few tablets only instead of attending special therapy. However, the lecturer opposes this point by explaining that pills have a lot of side effects such as sleep issues, loss of appetite and others. Those effects are various for each person and cannot be predicted in short clinic studies. Therefore, medication cannot be an answer to depression.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, may, so, therefore, thus, whereas, as to, for instance, in addition, in short, such as, as a result, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 5.01324503311 319% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1433.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01048951049 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78256880042 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527972027972 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.1246716974 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.4210526316 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.0526315789 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.52631578947 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 4.45695364238 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103350613538 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.035844568949 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828063380677 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0741851624691 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0886266333419 0.0443174109184 200% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.19 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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