The lecturer raises three arguments to cast doubt on the idea from the reading passage that people nowadays read less literature and thus lowered the level of culture.
To begin with, the professor rules out the claim that no other types of books can provide as much intellectual stimulation as literature do, citing that there are a variety of books like scientific fictions, political comments that are also able to inspire our imagination. A book needn't to be a literature to be great.
Furthermore, the professor argues that although there is a general decreasing trend in the number of books people read, there are many other forms of great culture like music and movies. They are not a lower level of culture, like the reading material suggests. Instead, culture is changing, and music and movies can be even more direct than literature.
Finally, the lecturer disagrees with the suggestion in the passage that readers are responsible for less support and investment provided to literature writers, instead attributes it to the authors themselves, indicating that some authors' work is difficult to read, and even readers from the past would be unwilling to read them.
In conclusion, based on the arguments I mentioned above, reading less literature does not neccessarily means that there is a decline in culture.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 282, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: needn't
...able to inspire our imagination. A book neednt to be a literature to be great. Furt...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, if, so, thus, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1116.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16666666667 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74717712704 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574074074074 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 352.8 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => OK
Sentence length SD: 91.6910573611 49.2860985944 186% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.5 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 21.698381199 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.375 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.420275862243 0.272083759551 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.176287618266 0.0996497079465 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509369564948 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22177330378 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0341994583936 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.3589403974 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 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.