Question: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
A recent study reveals that people, especially young people, are reading far less literature—novels, plays, and poems—than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for the future of literature itself.
While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So by reading less literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits.
Unfortunately, missing out on the benefits of literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead? Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best sellers. These are usually superficial, poorly written, and intellectually undemanding. Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general.
The trend of reading less literature is all the more regrettable because it is taking place during a period when good literature is being written. There are many talented writers today, but they lack an audience. This fact is bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. Thus, the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today’s readers.
First of all, the author in the passage asserts that decline in literature decreases the intellectual power of people due to lack in exercising of imagination and narrow our comprehending ability. However, the professor in lecture contends that unlike literature, there are enormous high-quality books which enhance the innovative power of human. For example, science books, political analysis books are creative books which really more adeptness than those literature one that booms of mind.
Secondly, according to the passage, the expert opined that shifting from literature to unnecessary forms of entertainment has great impact on culture. In contrast, the lecture strongly objects this idea, and she counters that value culture has just changes in different way, rather than decreasing. not She supports for argument by presenting the example of music, movies presented the culture in creative ways than novel which helps to preserve in innovative way.
Finally, the passage claims that because of poor understanding ability and standard of audience there is diminishing in readers. Nevertheless, like two suggestions before, the professor in her lecture proclaims that this recommendation is not feasible because there are huge flaws in today's author as comparison to earlier one. For instance, early literature provides reasons, and reasoning in their literature, but in this era the contemporary author ,lacks in creativeness.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 453, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this literature' or 'those literatures'?
Suggestion: this literature; those literatures
... books which really more adeptness than those literature one that booms of mind. Secondly, ac...
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Line 3, column 300, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Not
... different way, rather than decreasing. not She supports for argument by presenting...
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Line 5, column 452, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... but in this era the contemporary author ,lacks in creativeness.
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1228.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.68518518519 5.08290768461 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9750765111 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.634259259259 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 391.5 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.4796204001 49.2860985944 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 136.444444444 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.4444444444 7.06452816374 204% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0685750245207 0.272083759551 25% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0268199910847 0.0996497079465 27% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0187622826352 0.0662205650399 28% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0431420626128 0.162205337803 27% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0148516122167 0.0443174109184 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 53.8541721854 56% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.02 12.2367328918 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.31 8.42419426049 122% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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