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.
In this set of materials, the author strongly postulates that today's generation is not fond of literature reading and provides three problems to endorse its idea. However, the professor in the listening contradicts each of the problems mentioned in the passage.
First and foremost, the passage begins by asserting that lessen of book reading results in a decrease in the intellectual ability of the young generation. However, the professor explains that other than literature books there are different books and novels based on history, political knowledge, and more similar topics which can increase the intellectual ability of people and stimulate their imaginations.
Moreover, the professor in the lecture focuses on details that it doesn't mean reading fewer literature results in less book reading which in turn results in a decline in culture. Nowadays, there are a lot of movies and songs which connect people with their culture. These claims refute the writer's implication of Today's people spend their time watching Television, online shows, and listening to music which increases the gap between people and their culture.
Ultimately, the article wraps its arguments by explaining that we do have good literature writers which are not supported by the investors due to the lack of interest of readers. However, the professor in the listening refutes this point by showing the weakness of authors that are not supported by the publishers isn't the reader's fault. These days Authors are using difficult language to understand by today's generation which results in a lack of interest in reading these kinds of books.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'todays'' or 'today's'?
Suggestion: todays'; today's
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Suggestion: doesn't
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
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Suggestion: isn't
...hat are not supported by the publishers isnt the readers fault. These days Authors a...
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Message: You should probably use 'author'.
Suggestion: Author
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'todays'' or 'today's'?
Suggestion: todays'; today's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1369.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32684824903 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73493528349 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52140077821 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3125264457 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.9 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2 7.06452816374 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.141949680715 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.05573203505 0.0996497079465 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.032007170293 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0841888071033 0.162205337803 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262451264507 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 53.8541721854 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.7273730684 144% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.