There exists a position that while seeking pleasure, reading books is more beneficial than watching TV in terms of imagination and language skills. For several reasons, I partly disagree with this view.
On the one hand, there is a solid grounding for the reasoning that reading compares favourably with watching TV in the process of imagining. In reading books, brain collects non-visual information - words - to generate imagery together with circumstances and put them into pictures. Those mental activities are indeed parts of imagination. For example, those who read a detective novel may certainly envisage about what are happening to fully absorb the captivating gestures, sounds and moves, which are depicted through pieces of text. In contrast, watching the film based on the same novel, the audience can directly capture the scenes and actions, cut down on the quantity of information that brain processes, therefore diminish the work of imagination.
However, reading books or watching TV plays paralleled roles in reinforcing language skills, none is inferior to the other. While reading is mainly responsible for written aspect of a language, watching accounts for the phonetic part of the same tongue. Grammar, vocabulary, and making sentences are phenomenally crucial for literature and formal communication occasions, which are augmented by reading books. At the same time, listening, pronunciation, intonation or utterances, all combined in movies or video clips, are indispensable parts of the linguistic realm. This is further evidenced by the fact that watching TV is just like witnessing daily conversations, which prompts a child to develop speaking and hearing abilities. In another word, people's language skills deemed as insufficient without any of these two components.
In conclusion, though I accept that reading for enjoyment may be better concerning improving imagination, I disagree that this habit can be more valuable in compared to watching TV regarding language skills.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ollects non-visual information - words - to generate imagery together with circum...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, may, regarding, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1704.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.60526315789 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00882975868 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.628289473684 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 506.74238477 102% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.2881419316 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.714285714 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.228583171181 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0711900736769 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548706579666 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135024347895 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0128447199998 0.056905535591 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.72 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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