Some people think reading stories in books is better than watching TV or playing computer games for children To what extent do you agree or disagree

It is widely argued that reading books is far more beneficial than other forms of entertainment such as watching TV or playing computer games. I personally agree with the above statement because books give children a great sense of imagination and improve a wide range of knowledge, whereas the later forms tend to gradually deteriorate their health. This essay will first give plausible explanations as well as demonstrate some relevant examples.

There is no room for doubt that books play an important role in the learning process of the young generation, especially in the cyber era. First of all, books, which are written in words, probably boost one’s imagination during reading. Taking Harry Porter as a prime example, which is one of the best-selling novels are globally well-known among children, greatly stimulate youngsters to visualize the stories with their own fantasy. Additionally, reading books is commonly seen as a handy tool to broaden one’s horizons. The book of “110 elements”, for instance, involving great stories of famous scientists like Marie Curry, Thomas Edison or Markovnikov, and thus, not only provides children with backgrounds of each element, but also is a great source of practical experiments related to science.

On the other hand, in terms of watching TV or playing computer games, these kinds of recreation hugely put the young generation into grave danger of health deterioration. The youth, who have a strong tendency to be addicted to these types of entertainment due to their fantastic designs, are leading to a sedentary lifestyle, therefore, they usually suffer from bodily discomforts such as severe headaches or intense back pains. Moreover, a research carried out by Oxford University has recently been revealed that a vast majority of children who highly expose to radiation of computer screens are greatly prone to short-sightedness and have to wear glasses at an early age.

In conclusion, reading books has many positive impacts on a child’s learning progress compared to the disadvantages of technological devices like TV or computers bring for.

Votes
Average: 9 (3 votes)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to progress'
Suggestion: to progress
... positive impacts on a child’s learning progress compared to the disadvantages of techno...
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Line 7, column 174, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...devices like TV or computers bring for.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1787.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36636636637 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97384644553 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.660660660661 0.561755894193 118% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.061125782 49.4020404114 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.916666667 106.682146367 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.75 20.7667163134 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4166666667 7.06120827912 176% => 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 : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231244455203 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0775151380046 0.084324248473 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617149639467 0.0667982634062 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134698577579 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0401612445208 0.056905535591 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 13.0946893788 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.0 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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