Can anyone grade this essay. it is of official guide practice test 2, independent writing
Both the reading passage and lecture discuss about how professors, universities and general public can be benefited from the appearance of the professors on Television programs. The former summarizes three possible reasons to support this idea. However, the lecturer challenges each of these reasons.
First of all, the passage suggests that professors can be benefitted by such appearances, because they will earn reputations from more number of people. On the hand, the professor challenges this reason and states that they will earn reputation from the people who have lesser qualification then the professors themselves. Also, they can be used as a purpose of entertainment. In addition, due to this, it can result into less number of invites in important conference and they will granted less amount of money for their research.
Second, the reading passage claims that appearances of professors on TV programs can benefit universities in terms of increasing their popularity. Nevertheless, the lecturer contradicts this reason and argues that these appearances can take a lot of time from professor to get dressed, to travel, to decide what to present, and to practice what they are going to present. In addition to this, she said that this time can be used in more important activities such as in meeting with their students or in their research.
Finally, the author of the text suggest that general public can learn from professors. In contract, the professor counter that by saying that television networks do not really want to so in depth academic content. Instead of it, they just want to show an academic title. She further states that these overview or background information of any topic is always delivered by any general news reporter.