TOEFL Official Guide - Practice Test 2 - Integrated Writing - Professors on TV
The reading passage and lecture have conflicting opinions about whether it is a good idea that the professors appear on TV. The article strongly postulates that it is beneficial for themselves and their universities as well as the public. On the other hand, the listening adamantly delineates that there is no benefit from it because of three compelling reasons.
First and foremost, the lecturer points out that appearing on tv may affect adversely to the professors' professional careers because they have become entertainers, not educators. More and more appearing as celebrities on TV, they are isolating from important meeting and conferences. As a result, no one wants to invite them to crucial events of great professors. Nonetheless, the author offsets these points by declaring that appearance on TV will give the professors fame among their fellows. Thousands of people will know them from tv program than their published books.
On top of this, the lecturer further asserts that it takes a lot of time prepare for it because the professors have to think about what they will present as well as rehearse it. Consequently, there is not enough time to do their real jobs such as talking with students and attending vital seminars. It will also negatively influence on university's reputation of academic success because its professors pay more attention to their appearance of TV. These claims refute the writer's implications about it will enhance the university's fame among the public due to their professor. To be more specific, the public will think that this university has educated professor, so it will definitely increase the donator of funds in university.
Lastly, the speaker in the lecture suggests that people usually want to know briefly about scientific things the professors discuss, thus there is no difference between the news reporter's given information and those of real professors. This mainly due to the fact that no one desires to listen to their lectures after dinner. Nevertheless, the article counters these indications by insisting that the public will appreciate their knowledge because they think that the professor has an in-depth understanding of their areas.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, briefly, consequently, first, if, lastly, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, thus, well, such as, as a result, as well as, 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: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 22.412803532 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1854.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 351.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28205128205 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87609060074 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54415954416 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 419.366225166 136% => 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: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1744424237 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.875 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9375 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.1875 7.06452816374 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.108420131942 0.272083759551 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0417825177232 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0350942990401 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0731638344473 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0256793522661 0.0443174109184 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => 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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