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 article states that people's number who are reading the literature, novels, plays, and poem reduced in comparision with people who studied these items in the past, and provides three reasons for supports. However, the professor explains that the material of reading have changed and people read new sources of literatures, and refutes each of the author's reasons.
first, the reading claims that book reading provide a higher level of intellectual growth in human and has facilities to encourage people to improve their imagination. unfortuneately, decline in the number of reader make a great problems and lose the befefits. the peofessor opposes this point by saying that another field such as science, history, and politcs have high great quality for reader to create their imagination and improve thier intellectual abilities. also, these topics have great advantages for readers who wants to stimulate their basic attitudes.
second, the article posits that people rather than reading the literatures, novels, etc. turn in to waching television, moveis and other stuff like these. In contrast, the professor says that the materials of reading have chenged and people cannot stay in old time, they need to evovle and use modern stuff, like moveis, television's instructive programs. according to the professor, ruduction in the number of book's reader dose not means reduction in the number of people who crave in knowledge.
third, the reading says that the main cause for this regretable events is weak standards of today's reader. the professor casts doubt on this point by explaining that the author's reason is partly ture, but not only do not authors success in introduce new materails, this by default leading to decline in the number of readers which can named author's defeat, but also concept and understanding of the book become difficult now even than before.
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also, but, first, however, if, second, so, third, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1585.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28333333333 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60780665609 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576666666667 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.8951300313 49.2860985944 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.083333333 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25563534586 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0962757817225 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0715059010953 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161030919774 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0631113783172 0.0443174109184 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 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.