TPO 11: a decline in reading the literature
In the reading passage, the author claims that a substantial drop in reading the literature including poem, novel and plays, particularly in juveniles, has an adverse effect on the whole of the society by pointing out 3 reasons of support. However, finding all the ideas implausible and questionable, the professor casts doubt on what is presented in text and states some evidence to the contrary.
At first, the author argues that a decline in the number of literature readers is closely associated with the decrease in the culture of the society. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that scientific, political and even historical books can provide intellectual stimulation as well. Indeed, these kinds of books also contain high-quality context which not only enhances creativity in their readers but it also develops their imagination. Therefore, it does not mean that the culture of the society has been declined.
In addition, the reading passage holds the view that watching the TV programs or music videos as alternative habits instead of reading the literature is accounted as a waste of time. On the other hand, the professor disputes this point by clarifying to the fact that the culture of the people has changed. Actually, we live in an era of time that there is a wide array of expressions of culture and the brilliant song or successful movie is other forms of the culture. Admittedly, altering in the form of culture has nothing to do with spending the time with futility.
Finally, the author asserts lack of financial support of the talented writers from publishers due to the shortage of public interest in terms of reading literature. The professor, though, dismisses it by subscribing to the point that although it is true that publishers are less inclined to invest in the modern writers, it is not entirely the readers' fault. In fact, so difficult is their writing that it is hard for the readers to understand and perceive them; thus, they opt to occupy their time with other options such as reading some other types of books or watching the TV programs.
- TPO 22 80
- What do you want most in a friend – someone who is intelligent, or someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable? Which one of these characteristics is most important to you? Use reasons and specific examples to explain your choice. 76
- TPO 13 81
- Agree or disagree. Government should spend more on early education than on college education. 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People who have learned many different skills are more likely to succeed than those who focus on learning only one skill. 90
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, conversely, finally, first, however, if, so, therefore, thus, well, in addition, in fact, such as, it is true, on the whole, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 30.3222958057 178% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1741.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 350.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97428571429 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77137113343 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551428571429 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 540.0 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.8233408939 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.923076923 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9230769231 21.698381199 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5384615385 7.06452816374 177% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.309167863577 0.272083759551 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907296695262 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0706603837065 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16758248368 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382817132584 0.0443174109184 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 63.6247240618 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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