Both the article and lecture discuss the decline of reading literature of people in this time from different perspectives. The author of the reading gives three reasons to support his idea that because people do not read this kind books as they used to, they decrease their culture in general. However, the lecture casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He agrees with the statement about there are less people who want to read literature now, but none of those reasons that the author has mentioned are convincing.
First of all, the author of the reading points out that the literature books reduce sharply. It is a serious problem because it makes people miss a lot of benefits that other kinds of books cannot provide them. This point is challenged by the lecture. He rebuts that even though people do not read literature books as they did, they read other books, such as history and science books. They are high quality as well.
Secondly, the author of the reading contends that people miss out the benefits of reading and turn to watch movies and listen to music. These things just bring them to lower level of culture in general. The lecture argues this idea. He says that there are many forms of culture rather than only reading novel and literature books. People benefit themselves tremendously from watching interesting movies and listening to brilliant music.
Finally, the author of the reading states that lack of audience is the cause of decline reading literature. The article also notes that there are many talented writers today. The lecture on the other hand, opposes this statement. He refutes that today it is true that there are a plenty of literature books, but the content of books is difficult to understand. Therefore, people tend to find the books that were written by previous authors to read.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 409, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...rees with the statement about there are less people who want to read literature now,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, in general, such as, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1522.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86261980831 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33099006502 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507987220447 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.7408538756 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.1052631579 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4736842105 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.52631578947 7.06452816374 107% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.455744951311 0.272083759551 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136780999895 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0906000474001 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.304131105484 0.162205337803 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0219755233709 0.0443174109184 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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