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.
Both passage and lecture focus upon the decline in literature reading public. The author provides with different reasons for this decrease in audience. On the other hand, the speaker disregard all the reasons and casts doubt upon the passage by stating three reasons.
First, from author's point of view, only literature encourages public to exercise their emotions and expand their understanding of language. In contrast, the speaker profess that science and history books are of high quality which can also lead to critical analysis and stimulate our imagination besides literature.
Second, the writer claims that by not reading literature, public is moving towards intellectually undemanding and poorly written stuff. Also, many people prefer to watch movie and television instead of reading novels and chanllenging their intellect, which inturn lowered the levels of culture in general. Conversely, the orater states that culture is changing but posivtively. Movies and music are such forms of expressions that appeal more understanding and intellect.
Lastly, the author claims that young talented writers are not getting chance to get their literature published because of lack of audience. In opposition, the monologue rebuts the claims that audience should not be blamed as much of the mordern literature is difficult to understand by audience.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 98, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... public is moving towards intellectually undemanding and poorly written stuff. Al...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, conversely, first, if, lastly, second, so, in contrast, in general, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1156.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 206.0 270.72406181 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.61165048544 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.78849575616 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75444267913 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.650485436893 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
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: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.6204567317 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.090909091 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7272727273 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.54545454545 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164811958973 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0555705280279 0.0996497079465 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0502583901269 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0839750866618 0.162205337803 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444930313028 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.2367328918 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.