Allow for 40 minutes to complete this task.
Compose an essay on the following:
Some people believe that television is a powerful educational tool. Other people believe that television is nothing more than mindless entertainment and should be discouraged.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Discuss both views and give your own opinion. Provide examples and supporting evidence to back up your opinion on this subject.
Write 250 words or more.
It seems that television is ever-present in our society. Perhaps because of its popularity, there are widely differing views as to whether the medium of television is a positive force or a negative force in society.
On the plus side, there is a commonly heard view that television is of great importance to society as it acts as an educational tool for the general public. Television, it is argued, makes the boring exciting through its ability to engage us with both sound and visual stimulation. People respond well to the visual story‐telling power of fast‐paced television programmes and are better able to retain the knowledge learned through the experience. The use of television programmes to teach children how to read and write is a good example of this.
Alternatively, some people believe that television is nothing more than mindless entertainment. Such people argue that television acts as a substitute for real learning. That instead of absorbing information at one’s speed through the medium of reading, such as, one is force‐fed the briefest of information at a fast‐pace, making in-depth analysis difficult. An example of this would be the comparison between television news and a newspaper. A newspaper can be read and absorbed at one’s own pace and can go into greater depth than television.
In conclusion, then, one can see that the rapid superficiality of television is, in fact, no substitute for in‐depth coverage provided by other media, such as the written form.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 126, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...arity, there are widely differing views as to whether the medium of television is a positive ...
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Line 3, column 142, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... it acts as an educational tool for the general public. Television, it is argued, makes the bo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, then, well, as to, in conclusion, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1276.0 1615.20841683 79% => OK
No of words: 243.0 315.596192385 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25102880658 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.20363070211 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16560693221 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 176.041082164 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.592592592593 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 404.1 506.74238477 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0538653872 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.333333333 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.83333333333 7.06120827912 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261152743095 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104226659565 0.084324248473 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0949833835412 0.0667982634062 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132176547477 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0623930010209 0.056905535591 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 78.4519038076 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.