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.
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Both reading passage and lecture discusss whether today's people are reading literature less. The former argues that there are three bad impacts on lack of reading literature, but the latter refutes each of these three points.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that today's generations are suffering from less imaginations, lack of sympathy towards others and low understandability of language because of decreasing rate of reading of literature. However, the lecture contentds that reading literature low does not mean that today's people are not reading. They focus more on historical, and political books, which help them increasing imaginative power.
Secondly, the text asserts that reading literature less makes cultural degradation as people want to read low qualities books, hear music, and watch television. In contrast, the listening counters that culture is changing and there are many available forms of conveying cultural values such as, musics, movies. Good musics, and movies are also transporting culture in a better way.
In third, the reading passage states that because of the low number of audience, the publishers do not invest much on literature that creates shortage of good literature writer. On the other hand, the lecturer mentions that modern literature is very difficult to understand. For this reason younger people are not interseted in reading this. Therefore, it is the author's fault not the reader for getting less support from the publishers.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 91, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun imaginations is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...t todays generations are suffering from less imaginations, lack of sympathy towards ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 410, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to increase' or 'increase'.
Suggestion: to increase; increase
...l, and political books, which help them increasing imaginative power. Secondly, the tex...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 32, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ower. Secondly, the text asserts that reading literature less makes cultural d...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, in contrast, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1265.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4525862069 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73996588481 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.594827586207 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 387.9 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7383378205 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.416666667 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 7.06452816374 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291790325687 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108150803631 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874442478927 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173439119119 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510626978855 0.0443174109184 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 91, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun imaginations is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...t todays generations are suffering from less imaginations, lack of sympathy towards ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 410, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to increase' or 'increase'.
Suggestion: to increase; increase
...l, and political books, which help them increasing imaginative power. Secondly, the tex...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 32, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ower. Secondly, the text asserts that reading literature less makes cultural d...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, in contrast, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1265.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4525862069 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73996588481 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.594827586207 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 387.9 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7383378205 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.416666667 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 7.06452816374 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291790325687 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108150803631 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874442478927 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173439119119 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510626978855 0.0443174109184 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 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.