rofessors 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 they 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.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading thinks highly of professors' going on television to give expert commentary because it will benefit professors, the university and the public. However, the lecturer questions that the benefits disscussed in the reading is somewhat superficial. The lecturer refutes that professors and the public are not benefited from the television
First of all, it does more harm than good to the professors. The lecturer argues that going on television will discredit the professor's reputation as a serious scholar since the his or her counterparts would see him or her as unprofessional enough to be one, as television is more for entertainment rather than education. Furthermore, due to the misreputation, the professor would be less likely to be invited to attend academic events like important meetings or getting less funding for his or her research. Also, it takes time for the professor to go on television, thus leaving less time for research, students and school bussiness.
Secondly, it is not that good for the public as the reading suggests since the television would not want something serious but the intellectual title. The material presented by the professor is not going to be deep and serious. A reponsible reportor is capable of doing such work if he or she does the homework.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Suggestion: professors'; professor's
... going on television will discredit the professors reputation as a serious scholar since t...
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Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'his'?
Suggestion: the; his
...s reputation as a serious scholar since the his or her counterparts would see him or he...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1087.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 211.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15165876777 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81127787577 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01559627495 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554502369668 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 334.8 419.366225166 80% => 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: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.7649204097 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.777777778 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4444444444 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14418477033 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0606748680792 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422177895061 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.09286474104 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451092982837 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.7273730684 144% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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