The reading and the lecture are both about the decline in the reading habits of people, especially for literature. The reading claims that less reading habits can cause negative effects and provide three reasons of support. However, the lecture casts doubt on the claims and refutes each of author's reasons.
First, the reading states that only literature can provide intellectual stimulation for imagination. This point is challenged in the lecture by saying that stimulation can also be happened by science, history and political reading. They have the same high quality as literature. Besides that, one cannot assume less reading on literature means less reading at all.
Second, the reading points out that people read self-help books instead of literature and they are the best sellers now which the author of the reading finds them super artificial and unintellectual. Moreover, the reading claims that instead of reading, people listen to music and watch TV. The lecture opposes this idea by explaining that the culture has changed, and people can gain more information not only from written literature. Today people have more opportunities such as TV and music, and they do not waste their time with them.
Third, in the reading, it is said that talented writers are forced to write less because there are not enough reader for them. That makes publishers to invest less money for literature. The lecture rebuts this idea and suggests that writers are intent to be difficult to be understood by readers. That is not on readers actually. It is all about writers.
Finally, all the claims provided in the reading are challenged by specific explanation in the lecture.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, third, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 52.1666666667 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1413.0 1977.66487455 71% => OK
No of words: 273.0 407.700716846 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17582417582 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.48103885553 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59207660274 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 212.727598566 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534798534799 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 432.0 618.680645161 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.4764701711 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.1176470588 100.406767564 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0588235294 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.58823529412 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30603893228 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0932750095052 0.076458572812 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703256401259 0.0737576698707 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157413816978 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0552334319082 0.0645574589148 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 11.7677419355 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 86.8835125448 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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