Young people reading less literature and how this affects culture.
The article introduces the topic of young people reading less literature than in the past. More specifically, the writer discusses that this is a problem for the culture and the future of literature. The lecturer in the lecture passages disagrees. She states that is not true that this trending affects the culture and attacks each of the claims made in the reading.
In the reading, the author begins by stating that literature provides the most in intellectual stimulation, so the decline in book reading is a misfortune. The lecturer, however, disagrees. In the listening, the speaker mentions that there are other kinds of good readings, such as science writings, political analysis, and so on. Regarding this, she states that if the writings are high-quality, they must stimulate the imagination.
The author also claims that the problem is not only about people not taking adventage of the benefits that literature provides, it is also about what they are reading instead. The writer holds that there are books poorly written, with no stimulation for the readers that now are best-sellers. Specifically, it is mentioned about the self-help books. Also, people only focus on watching tv, or other means of trivial entertainment that decrease the level of culture. Again, the lecturer believes there are flaws in the writer's logic. The professor puts forward the fact that there are many ways to be aware of culture and to stimulate us creativity, and other skills. Music, movies are just two examples of this. She added that it is wrong for the speaker to think that a good film will not contribute to the culture. Moreover, the culture have changed. Nowadays, the culture is more direct to the young population.
Another reason why the author feels that the lack on reading literature is a problem is that today there a really good writers. Part of the problem is the low invest on literature. In that way, it is very difficult for the talented people to access to better audiences. On the contrary, the professor theorizes that it is foult of the writers, not of the investment. It is well-known that modern literature is really hard to read, even for them. Logically, young people have lost interest on literature, so that is the reason for less support.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 510, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...ecturer believes there are flaws in the writers logic. The professor puts forward the f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, really, regarding, so, well, kind of, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 10.4613686534 239% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1863.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 373.0 270.72406181 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99463806971 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74349072707 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487935656836 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 579.6 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.3130521335 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.0 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2173913043 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.17391304348 7.06452816374 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336316400004 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0778699128408 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0840504226019 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210245798269 0.162205337803 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115440223593 0.0443174109184 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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