In the age of television reading books is not as important as it once was People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books

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In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books.

Reading has now become a part of our history. Nowadays, people prefer watching television & watching videos online as a better source of education & entertainment as well. Some believe that people can learn as much as by watching television as they can by reading books. However, I disagree with this prompt as the books written by such ingenious & famous authors are a gem to our society. These novels and books provide us with great insight into past events as well as the experiences of the author. These two reasons will help me elaborate on my viewpoint regarding the importance of books in our daily life.

In my opinion, reading books provide us with invaluable experience that no social media or television show could ever provide. The author sketches away all his experiences of his whole life into a book that takes our imagination to a whole new level. For instance, the best seller book on finance “The rich dad & poor dad” suffices the author whole experience and also tells us ways to embrace our own path. He provides us with ways to increase our knowledge base and take us to a hypothetical world that one who reads a book can only imagine. The above example illustrates how an author imbibes his ideas and the readers can comprehend from it and even take it to another level according to their own imagination. This power of imagination lacks in the people who try to grasp knowledge from television where the only source is the person speaking and limiting the knowledge base of the viewer.

Even if, the television show can make the viewer understand things better but scientific facts show that the person who reads & learns from books can retain more than the person who grasps more from the television and able to retain very less. Scientists believe that people can experience the physical touch of the books that helps the person to retain more than through any other source of knowledge. For example, in a scientific study two students were given one-week time for a test, each, however, was provided with a different source to learn about the test. One was provided with television & internet sources and another kid was provided with books. After one week, it was seen that boy, who was given the internet and other sources were able to cover more syllabus, however, was able to retain very less as compared to the other boy who retained more and hence was able to score more marks. This example illustrated the importance of reading books, have on once’s mind and how it helps in the retention of memory.

However, some believe that television still is a better source as it can provide more knowledge in less amount of time. However, the amount of white or blue television radiates has caused restlessness in the eyes due to which people are not able to focus and retain more data in their mind. So, in the end, I will conclude by saying people can learn more by reading books as compared to television in this era.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 814, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
..., however, was able to retain very less as compared to the other boy who retained ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, regarding, so, still, well, for example, for instance, as well as, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2443.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 513.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76218323587 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75914943092 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47332808311 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461988304094 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 773.1 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.049682828 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.333333333 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4285714286 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.403681342684 0.243740707755 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133474231103 0.0831039109588 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120594973057 0.0758088955206 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.273892659203 0.150359130593 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0724659825121 0.0667264976115 109% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 100.480337079 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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