Integrated WritingA 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 gen

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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.

The speaker refuted the main point made in the pasage that the fact that less people are reading has bad effects for people, culture and literature, mainly with three point contrary to the three explanations claimed in the passage.

First, while literature books really stimulate people, there are still a variety of books also give people intellectual incentives also. For example, some science books and history books give people creative thinking and stimulate people's imagination as what the literature books usually designed to do. As a result, people don't have to rely only on literature bo...

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Sentence: The decreasing number of readers may results from this kind of trend in authors but not from habitual change of people.
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Sentence: The speaker refuted the main point made in the pasage that the fact that less people are reading has bad effects for people, culture and literature, mainly with three point contrary to the three explanations claimed in the passage.
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