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 theylack 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 believes that young people now are reading less and has caused negative effects on the development of culture. Instead, the lecture casts doubt on those opinions.
The reading claims that readers read lesser nowadays can decrease people's imagination and lack of the stimulation from literature. The lecture argues it and proposes that there are many new types of literature such as political critics, science journal, and web pages are boosting the culture to a better level.
The reading declares that the best sellers now are shallow poorly written because readers prefer TV programs, music videos, and movies instead of fine literally works. The lecture refutes it with the view that the culture is changing and poems were replaced by more modern works like inspiring movie or wonderful musics.
The reading blames the readers read less and make many talented writers lack of audiences and publishers reduce investments on writers. The lectures debuts it and raises that many contemporary writers purposely create works which are hard to understand. The faults were made by writers themselves actually.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...blishers reduce investments on writers. The lectures debuts it and raises that many...
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...ate works which are hard to understand. The faults were made by writers themselves ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 15.0 30.3222958057 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 950.0 1373.03311258 69% => OK
No of words: 177.0 270.72406181 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36723163842 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64748333727 4.04702891845 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4896735242 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.655367231638 0.540411800872 121% => OK
syllable_count: 291.6 419.366225166 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7926381115 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.555555556 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.44444444444 7.06452816374 35% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.177053023855 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687259664487 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0757661273738 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111165707504 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0513196043455 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.75 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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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.