The passage claims that appearance of university professors as guests on television news programs can be beneficial for the professors, university as well as the for the general public. However, the lecturer says that appearance of professors on television programs has negative consequences and refutes the points stated by the passage.
First, the lecturer states that among the fellow professors the reputation of the professor who gives appearance on television is of an entertainer and not of a serious scholar. Moreover, this professor might not be invited to important discussion, conferences and would not receive funding for his research project. And this counters the argument in the article that professors benefit for appearing on television.
Second, the lecturer opposes the statement that university also benefit from such appearances, by stating that such appearances consume a lot of time, for instance, time for makeup, time for traveling and time for preparation. Instead, the lecturer says that this time could be well utilized by the professor in helping the students, attend to university business and also do some research.
Third, the reading posits that public also gains from such expert insight. However, the lecturer asserts that television does not require serious content and the content presented is not different from the content presented by a tv reporter who has done some research. Therefore, this content is not as insightful as the viewers thought.
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- Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying. 50
- Explain the points made in the lecture on how they cast doubt with the points in the reading passage. 3
- Nations should pass laws to preserve any remaining wilderness areas in their natural state, even if these areas could be developed for economic gain.Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position 66
- TOEFL Official Guide - Practice Test 2 - Integrated Writing - Professors on TV 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...sors, university as well as the for the general public. However, the lecturer says that appear...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, well, for instance, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1264.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47186147186 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88770224139 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506493506494 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 387.9 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => 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: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0240941947 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.4 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.6 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => 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: 0.0720520015258 0.272083759551 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0349430141618 0.0996497079465 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0269563715893 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0482947165224 0.162205337803 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0311742187154 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.2367328918 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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