People say that reading for pleasure helps people to develop imagination and better language skills than watch TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
People often say that reading books is an ideal way to achieve linguistic proficiency and better imagination. However, I completely disagree with this and believe that watching television is more significant for the development of these aspects.
In terms of language skills, when watching television, people not only hear the sounds spoken by different characters in the movies but also could easily imitate the voice of them. For example, children nowadays prefer watching Disney Channel, which provides many foreign movies mostly spoken by American. If children have a habit of watching channel just like that, they will have better pronunciation and a keen understanding of foreign languages. Furthermore, this also benefits people by reducing the likelihood of making mistakes in daily speaking because when hearing foreigners talk, they could recognize their mistakes and avoid making them in the future.
Apart from the influence of television on the development of language proficiency, this also has a positive effect on the imagination of people, especially to a child. Most movies today are designed with special effects, high-quality sounds, and computer animation, enabling children to experience eye-catching scenes. The more these qualities children exposure, the more nurtured their imagination will be because they could imagine their own stories, which might be similar to what they once encountered on the screen. In contrast, books often provide people millions of words, which are used to describe characters or scenes, and do not show people a clear picture of what they are experiencing.
In conclusion, while some people say that the option of reading books rather than choosing to watch television is of vital importance, I, however, would argue that television has a better influence on people in terms of language skills and imagination.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, while, apart from, for example, in conclusion, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1588.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.51388888889 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87086222638 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572916666667 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 489.6 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 40.2832943247 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.363636364 106.682146367 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1818181818 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284173092012 0.244688304435 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101863730629 0.084324248473 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0721470008334 0.0667982634062 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186480903645 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0634168583197 0.056905535591 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 50.2224549098 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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