Professors appearing on television
The reading and the lecture discuss whether professors' appearances on television are beneficial or not. While the reading suggests that these appearances are beneficial for professors, universities and people; the lecture opposes this claim.
First, the reading states that by going on television professors gain reputation outside the academia. The lecture, on the other hand, contradicts this idea by suggesting that these professors are considered in the academia as not seriou enough. Moreover, there is a high probability that they may not be invited to important scientific conferences or may have a hard time to raise funds to finance their researches.
Second, another point that the reading makes to support the proffesors who go on television is that the universities, where they teach, also benefit; because this is a very positive way of marketing. The lecture, on the contrary, refutes this idea by saying that professors waste a lot of time travelling or rehearsing before going to the media. It adds on to say that instead they should be reaserching, spending more time with students in office hours, or helping the business part of university.
Third, the reading also suggests that public gains a lot of knowledge about a topic from a university proffesor, who is an expert on a subject. The lecture, however, opposes this idea by saying that the media does not want to cover subjects in depth. Furthermore, according to the lecture, professors are used only to make titles look better for the viewers; not to actually discuss the substance of a specific problem.
Overall, this issue whether professors should express their opinions in mediums, such as, television is still open to debate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, still, third, while, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1446.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23913043478 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85751752877 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557971014493 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 450.0 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.1927886761 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 120.5 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1666666667 7.06452816374 172% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.267989437199 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106703243641 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125685994443 0.0662205650399 190% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15756682253 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0908714371642 0.0443174109184 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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