Children can learn effectively from watching television, which is why it should be encouraged at school and at home. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Essay topics:

Children can learn effectively from watching television, which is why it should be encouraged at school and at home. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Although television programmes today telecast many educational contents most of these programmes are targeted for mature people and not children. Most of the children watch tv to see their favourite cartoon characters. Therefore, I disagree that children will be encouraged to use television as an educational tool for their studies.

Because many informative channels such as discovery, animal planet, BBC, and many more are available to watch, it does not guarantee that children will gain knowledge by watching them. In fact, kids are smarter these days if they are granted permission to view tv they will watch programmes that they like. For instance, children are addicted to cartoons and if they are not under parent’s supervision, they will watch only cartoons and sports channels, not watching channels that were intended to watch. Children consider a television as an entertainment device and not as an educational tool. Therefore, it is not advisable to shift the focus of children to change the learning process using televisions.

Secondly, when kids keep watching tv they stress a lot on their eyes and strain them a lot. Viewing television for long hours can cause severe eyesight problems and other health issues. For instance, a cousin of mine who is ten years old used to spend around eight hours a day watching tv and playing video games. Today at this young age he suffers from frequent headaches and is forced to wear glasses. Doctors recommend parents to restrict and impose strict timings for children watching tv. Kids must be encouraged to play outdoors so that they are physically fit.

To end there are channels that provide information and knowledge, but these can be useful for adults. children must learn in the traditional method by going to school. At school, apart from learning academically they can make friends and learn a lot of other helpful things which can help them in future.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 103, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Children
...ge, but these can be useful for adults. children must learn in the traditional method by...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 295, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...ther helpful things which can help them in future.
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, apart from, for instance, in fact, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1618.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13650793651 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72340249299 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574603174603 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => 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: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.8620358714 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1764705882 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5294117647 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94117647059 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207075701484 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704768134906 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0493233340576 0.0667982634062 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139312418379 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0583602880288 0.056905535591 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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