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.
Both the reading and the listening discuss about the impact of reading less literature, novels, plays and poems. The writer states that this is very bad because it has many demerits for the public, culture, and the future of literature. However, the lecturer refutes this claim by saying that these effects is not as harmful as what was noted in the reading, and attacks each of the point made in the reading.
First and foremost, the author posits that decrease in reading of literature by the public is bad. According to the reading, people will no longer read books like literature that encourage intellectual stimulation and improve our understanding of language. Nonetheless,the professor rebuts this claim by stating that here are other materials such as scientific books and political analysis that is worth spending as much time as literature. He asserts that these materials are as good as the literature and the novels.
Secondly, the reading passage mentions that the reduction in the number of people that reads literature, has diverted the attention of the public to watching of television and music which reduce the height of culture. This specific argument is challenged by the professor. He contends that watching music and video doesn't mean people are undermining their culture. According to him, there are some musics and videos that promotes culture as much as literature.
Finally, the writer brings his argument to a close by saying that the decrease in the people that reads literature and novels discourages the serious and talented writers. Nevertheless, the lecturer contradicts this point by revealing that the literature written by the modern writers are very complex and difficult to understand by the member of the public. Even the early writers won't find their works very interesting.
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Suggestion: , the
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1531.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2252559727 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73895409996 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529010238908 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0038774007 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.357142857 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9285714286 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25763004845 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0800157195325 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0563950215139 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145176512818 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352253931612 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 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.