Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in the world. These television appearances are of great benefit to the professors themselves as well as to their universities and the general public. Professors benefit from appearing on television because by doing so they acquire reputations as authorities in their academic fields among a much wider audience than they have on campus. If a professor publishes views in an academic journal, only other scholars will learn about and appreciate those views. But when a professor appears on TV, thousands of people outside the narrow academic community become aware of the professor's ideas. So when professors share their ideas with a television audience, the professors' importance as scholars is enhanced. Universities also benefit from such appearances. The universities receive positive publicity when their professors appear on TV. When people see a knowledgeable faculty member of a university on television, they think more highly of that university. That then leads to an improved reputation for the university. And that improved reputation in turn leads to more donations for the university and more applications from potential students. Finally, the public gains from professors' appearing on television. Most television viewers normally have no contact with university professors. When professors appear on television, viewers have a chance to learn from experts and to be exposed to views they might otherwise never hear about. Television is generally a medium for commentary that tends to be superficial, not deep or thoughtful. From professors on television, by contrast, viewers get a taste of real expertise and insight.
The lecturer disagrees with the reading stated. The reading states that professors gain reputation from TV appearances. And that if they didn't appear on TV, their views would only be viewed by academic scholars and not by the general public. It's also stated by the reading that universities also gain reputation from the professors by appearing on TV, as TV programmes would state the professors' universities. Which would help the universities to attract students and donations. Another reason stated by the reading is that the viewers which are the general public would get a chance to learn materials that they might not have heard about from experts. Giving the viewers the perception that the materials are of high quality.
The lecturer, however, disagrees with this. Firstly, she stated that the materials given by the more TV-centric professors aren't always of high quality. And that they won't be viewed upon as serious by their fellow academic peers. They are also usually not invited to important academic conferences, and that they will have a hard time trying to earn money when they try to sell their academic books.
Secondly, the time that the professors would spend on trying to figure out what to present, traveling, and even to put makeup before the programmes can take ages. The time used by all that can be put into doing research, lectures and academic conferences.
Lastly, TV networks don't care about the deep understanding of the materials. They just want academic titles and to inflict information that may not have a deep grasp into the general public. And that the TV-centric professors would just produce the same results as reporters who did a little bit of research before presenting information.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1452.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09473684211 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64933425437 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505263157895 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 431.1 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.7360245536 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.75 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8125 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 7.06452816374 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163206220371 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0533502073023 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0321825381442 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.09260901071 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040114860525 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.