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.
The reading and lecture are both about the decline in the literature readers. The author of the reading feels that this is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for reading public, for culture in general and for the future of literature itself; nonetheless, the lecture challenges the claim made by the author; he is of the opinion that authors are responsible as they are not able to make good novels which can attract young peoples. The lecture cast doubt on the main point made in the reading by providing three reasons.
To begin with, the author argues that there has been a decline in books reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. However, this argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that young people love to read science books, history books etc; moreover, these books contain high-quality English. Therefore it is not a loss if young people are not interested to read literature.
Besides, the reading states that young people are reading self- help books; these books are poorly written and intellectually undemanding; moreover, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television and watch a music video. Nevertheless, the lecturer rebuts this by mentioning that movies, songs are helping young people almost as compare to novels. Moreover, the culture is changed now and movies are giving more knowledge to young people.
Finally, the author posits that there are many talented writers today, but they lack an audience; howbeit the lecturer believes that today's author is not able to provide good content and young people feel difficult to understand the poor content written by the current authors.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 450, 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.
...novels which can attract young peoples. The lecture cast doubt on the main point ma...
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Line 5, column 327, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ese books contain high-quality English. Therefore it is not a loss if young people are no...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, finally, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, therefore, in general, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => 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: 1421.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18613138686 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55502605331 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536496350365 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 433.8 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 95.0682225675 49.2860985944 193% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.181818182 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9090909091 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2727272727 7.06452816374 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.345640353163 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119195490712 0.0996497079465 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0890166952504 0.0662205650399 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18920297615 0.162205337803 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101533668464 0.0443174109184 229% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.