The reading passage emphasizes on negative effects of receiving information and news from electronic devices. The lecturer evidently refutes the claims made in the passage.
The first point that the lecturer makes is about the critical thinking which he believes will be improved by reading news and information from electronic media. According to the passage, critical thinking will be disturbed due to the novice views of the author of the information on the internet and also questions the credibility of the information. To which the lecturer responds by saying the due to the different perspectives of the people across the internet about the news, critical thinking of the reader will be improved.
Secondly, the passage mentions the negative side effects of electronic devices on people’s health, especially on the eye and brain. However, the lecturer points out that, if the reader of the electronic devices takes regular breaks while reading it will not do any harm and also he questions the claims by saying that there was no evidence to support these negative effects are caused due to reading from electronic devices.
Lastly, the passage point on electronic devices causing addiction and blocking communication between people is turned down by the lecturer by saying that by using the internet people will get to know more about other people's lives and will have knowledge on various topics, which can be used while discussing with strangers. So lecturer points out that electronic device will increase people's social skills.
In this way, the passage and lecturer views are contradicting on the people getting information, news from electronic devices and newspapers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...tes the claims made in the passage. The first point that the lecturer makes is ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1429.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35205992509 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7267666734 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47191011236 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 438.3 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.2334095 49.2860985944 163% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.9 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.172445694944 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0888328373409 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0555303774727 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116991117916 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302423013119 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.3589403974 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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