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 passage asserts that a recent study has revealed that young people spend less time reading literature and this could have troubling effects on the reading public. However, the speaker contradicts the passage’s assertion in the following ways.
Firstly, the author claims that nothing other than literature provides an intellectual stimulation and provides other benefits such as exercising our imaginations, empathy towards others and expanding the language understanding. The author states the consequences of reading less literature would be people missing out on benefits. However, the speaker contradicts this by saying that book is not the only form of literature that is intellectually stimulating. She further claims that there are other forms of literature such as science and history that are well written.
Furthermore, the reader claims that instead of reading a challenging novel, people tend to waste time in peripheral forms of entertainment which has declined the cultural level in the society. However, the speaker questions that by spending less time with books does the culture really decline? She also mentions that there are other forms of depicting culture such as good movies and songs that people use to showcase their culture. She asserts that these other forms of portraying culture speak much more than any literature.
Lastly, the author claims that the support for literature is dying and this could have an adverse effect on the few good authors that are still remaining. He also mentions that the writing and reading of literature is surely to decline due to the poor standards of the readers. However, the speaker clarifies this by saying not to blame the readers and instead it is the author’s fault because many of the literature currently written is far more difficult for anyone to understand.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 404, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...ch as good movies and songs that people use to showcase their culture. She asserts ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, lastly, really, so, still, well, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1564.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35616438356 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75373984429 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520547945205 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8731281853 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.307692308 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4615384615 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.76923076923 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296185097128 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100134962637 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0984701849297 0.0662205650399 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185018579608 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0778614851058 0.0443174109184 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21 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.