Some people think that secondary school children should study international news as one of the school subjects. Other people think that it is a waste of valuable school time. What do you think? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
The potential for the global media to shape the views of today’s youth is considerable. However, while some commentators think that the media has no place within secondary education, other analysts defend the idea that international news should be studied at school. In this essay, I shall examine a number of studies which show that both viewpoints are, to some degree, justified.
To begin with, the global media undoubtedly enriches teenagers’ understanding of contemporary affairs. This is because television reports provide concise summaries of international affairs. For example, a study run by Oxford sociologists showed that the media heavily influenced teenagers’ knowledge of contemporary affairs. Since any secondary school education would be incomplete without an awareness of such events, it is therefore clear that the media can play a vital role in assisting education.
On the other hand, many critics argue that teenagers are negatively affected by the global media’s focus on wars and civil unrest. This is because exposure to violence often leads to depression. For example, recent surveys have discovered that depressed teenagers usually cite the dismal state of the world as a source of their depression. Since mental health is an important objective of secondary education, it is therefore questionable whether the study of international news wouldn’t be a destructive and wasteful use of school resource.
In conclusion, it should be clear that there are reasons for and against the study of news at school. Thus if media studies are to enter schools in the future, schools will have to think about how negative aspects of the news can be decreased, and positive aspects maximized.
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Suggestion: Thus,
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Discourse Markers used:
['however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'to begin with', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.274760383387 0.247107183377 111% => OK
Verbs: 0.134185303514 0.155533422707 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102236421725 0.0946595960268 108% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0319488817891 0.0501214627716 64% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0159744408946 0.0437548338989 37% => OK
Prepositions: 0.150159744409 0.122226691241 123% => OK
Participles: 0.0223642172524 0.0403226058552 55% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.10401788717 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0223642172524 0.0326793684256 68% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0990415335463 0.0861772015684 115% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0223642172524 0.021408717616 104% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00638977635783 0.011925033212 54% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1735.0 1933.35771543 90% => OK
No of words: 268.0 316.048096192 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.47388059701 6.12580529183 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20517956788 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.402985074627 0.374742101984 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.335820895522 0.28420135186 118% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.235074626866 0.203846283523 115% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.182835820896 0.137316102897 133% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10401788717 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.037074148 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.585820895522 0.56093040696 104% => OK
Word variations: 61.2095127345 60.7387585426 101% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 20.6153846154 20.7743622355 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9480837419 49.517814964 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.461538462 127.492653851 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6153846154 20.7743622355 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.846153846154 0.814263465372 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.99599198397 25% => OK
Readability: 54.1974741676 49.1944974215 110% => OK
Elegance: 2.45614035088 1.69124875643 145% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.349611549288 0.332605444948 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0856702005229 0.102741220458 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0579390641327 0.0668466124924 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.54069600324 0.534860350844 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.129220790256 0.148594505496 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142756080194 0.134430193775 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0833126395733 0.0742795772207 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.360211334718 0.324371583561 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0489156879762 0.0638462369009 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246406088385 0.228012699653 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0269418811473 0.058150111329 46% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.68436873747 35% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.41683366733 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 5.90881763527 17% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 4.0 10.4468937876 38% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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