A recent study reveals that people especially young people are reading far less literature—novels, plays, and poems—than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for the future of literature itself.
While there has been a decline in book reading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. This is unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation that literature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations, empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So by reading less literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits.
Unfortunately, missing out on the benefits of literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead? Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best sellers. These are usually superficial poorly written, and intellectually undemanding. Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons are now more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Web page. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivial forms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general.
The trend of reading less literature is all the more regrettable because it is taking place during a period when good literature is being written. There are many talented writers today, but they lack an audience. This fact is bound to lead publishers to invest less in literature and so support fewer serious writers. Thus, the writing as well as the reading of literature is likely to decline because of the poor standards of today's readers.
Both, the reading and the lecture, talk about a recent research’s outcomes which show that people are reading fewer books than in the past decades.However, they have counter opinions. While the reading affirms that is a real problem, specially among youngsters, the lecturer explains that the facts are not as the writer says and refute each reasons presented, casting doubts in the author’s beliefs.
Firstly, the reading points out that exist a clear reduction in the book reading, but it is marker in literature books. Notwithstanding, the lecturer disproves this saying that literature books are not the only ones capable to provide intellectual growing to the readers. There are others like sciences, history or political analysis which could do it as well. Furthermore, the professor affirm that those books could be as creative as literature books.
Secondly, the test argues that the lost of literature books fan is not the only issue, but what kind of books is replace them. He says that the best sellers list is full of self-help books, which are commonly trivial, have low quality and do not touch profound or complex topics. Nonetheless, the professor mentions that this fact do not mean a declining in the people culture, but a change in their preferences to something more modern like movies or music.
Finally, the writer remarks that this phenomenon is happening in a period where exist an abundancy of good writers available in the market. However, the lecturer says that the authors have a important part of the blame in the people’s lack of interest, owing to the difficulty of the topic touched, which are complicated to assimilate and wake up low interest in the public.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, well, while, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1459.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 281.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19217081851 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83775196419 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572953736655 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6056074376 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.636363636 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5454545455 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0909090909 7.06452816374 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.124258278423 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0447005863791 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0442575295192 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.074327646248 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368924305082 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.