Some people say that reading for pleasure helps develop imagination and better language skills than watching TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Many people believe that watching television is not as effective as reading when it comes to enhancing language skills and imagination. In my opinion, both ways of collecting information are good for people’s cognitive development in their own terms.
In case of watching programs on TV, people could get certain intellectual benefits. For linguistic ability, audiences enjoy the language of a talk show or a movie mostly by their ears; therefore their listening skill would be affected and improved the most. This could be exemplified by those whose learn English by watching English movies on a daily basis, with the fact that their listening skills could improve gradually thanks to having that habit. For imagining skill, watching TV helps build certain pictures about a creature like a God or a beast in details of shape, size and color, which many people have certainly experienced in watching a fantasy movie.
However, reading is also beneficial to our thought in other ways. If watching TV helps boost our listening skill, then reading helps make our reading ability better. Not only that, we also have a chance to understand the grammatical features of the language more deeply as well as other cultural characteristics of the civilization which the language is from. For instance, Japanese learners at basic level have to learn how to use many polite phrases in many different daily situations, and can easily discover that politeness is a bold part of modern Japanese culture. Besides, reading does contribute to expanding our imagination in abstract ways, about not only the appearance but also inner characters of a certain object or person, since we are not affected by any specific pictures of it.
In conclusion, I would argue that both watching TV and reading have positive influence on people’s cognitive ability from different perspectives, and we cannot make judgment about which one is certainly better that the other.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 455, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...learn how to use many polite phrases in many different daily situations, and can easily discov...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1641.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20952380952 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83589275712 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 55.8798313845 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.75 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.25 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.5 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25985559784 0.244688304435 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101431908602 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682338166993 0.0667982634062 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161228118031 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0285756903152 0.056905535591 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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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.