Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research
and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on
television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in the world. These
television appearances are of great benefit to the professors themselves as well as to their
universities and the general public.
Professors benefit from appearing on television because by doing so acquire reputations as
authorities in their academic fields among a much wider audience than they have on
campus. If a professor publishes views in an academic journal, only other scholars will learn
about and appreciate those views. But when a professor appears on TV, thousands of
people outside the narrow academic community become aware of the professor’s ideas. So
when professors share their ideas with a television audience, the professors’ importance as
scholars is enhanced.
Universities also benefit from such appearances. The universities receive positive publicity
when their professors appear on TV. When people see a knowledgeable faculty member of a
university on television, they think more highly of that university. That then leads to an
improved reputation for the university. And that improved reputation in turn leads to more
donations for the university and more applications from potential students.
Finally, the public gains from professors’ appearing on television. Most television viewers
normally have no contact with university professors. When professors appear on television,
viewers have a chance to learn from experts and to be exposed to views they might
otherwise never hear about. Television is generally a medium for commentary that tends to
be superficial, not deep or thoughtful. From professors on television, by contrast, viewers get
a taste of real expertise and insight.
The passage state that, when a professor appears on TV as a guest to talk about the latest events in the world, it benefits the professor, University and also general public. The passage provides three reasons in order to support the claim. Howerver, the professor questions this claim and refutes each way in which it benefits professor, university and general public.
First, the reading states that, when a professor appears on the TV they can reach a wider audiance and by doing this they acquire reputation in their respective fields. The professor refutes this point and says that, if the professor appear on TV oftenly, then it is not good for the professors's reputation as other scholars think the professor as an entertainer and do not take him seriously. These professors are also not invited to different conferences and even do not get fundings for research.
Second, the lecture posits that, the universities benefit from this as university receive good publicity when the professors appear on the TV .The people think highly about the university if its faculty appear on the TV. The professor opposes this point and says that, if the professor spend more time on TV he has to give time for preparations, rehersals, travel and even looks. But if the professor spends so much time on these activites then the professor would not get time for meeting with students or doing research and university business.
Third, the passage says that the general public benefit from this as they dont have any contact with the professors at any other time so when they have a chance they can learn from the experts and also are exposed to different views. The professor oppose this point. The professor says that the TV network dont want people to watch in depth academic viewing at the night time. The TV networks want more of entertainment and less content and in this way even the general public do not get in depth knowledge from the experts.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...fits the professor, University and also general public. The passage provides three reasons in ...
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...ity when the professors appear on the TV .The people think highly about the univer...
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...y when the professors appear on the TV .The people think highly about the universit...
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Suggestion: don't
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Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'opposes'.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, second, so, then, third, as to
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 : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1627.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88588588589 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54011809719 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.459459459459 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 489.6 419.366225166 117% => 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: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.0790116792 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.153846154 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6153846154 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46153846154 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 4.19205298013 262% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More 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: 0.214986779787 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0891488561984 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481827193524 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146267667057 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0217821540879 0.0443174109184 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => 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: 11.38 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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