Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People can learn more from watching television than from reading books. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
For the last fifty years, television has been widely spread from home to home and has become the most influential electronic device as it entertain us and also allows us to obtain information and news easily. However, when compared to books another influential source of information, whether television or books is better for learning has aroused heated arguments. While some people claim that books are better source for learning since they provide a variety and depth of information, others deem otherwise. In my opinion, television is a better source for learning since it contains visual components that help your learning. Also, watching television could broaden your mind as you accept people's perspectives.
To begin with, television contains various visual contents. Reading books full of texts could rather make you easily bored. However, television can make the learning process much appealing by using the visual illustration. For example, when learning the anatomy of the frog, memorizing the scientific name and functions of organs using a textbook will be a laborious process. However, the learning process will be much more interesting if you watch a documentary containing fascinating video clips about frogs. Also, learning from visual contents is helpful for your understanding of knowledge compared to texts. For example, I once attempted to make a chocolate cake using a recipe from a book, but I failed. However, by watching a cooking program on television, I was able to find mistakes understand the process better which resulted in success.
Furthermore, watching television could broaden your perspective as you can listen to other people's opinions and perspectives. A book's content is limited to only the author's ideas and perspective. It may contain biased information and will eventually keep our mind prejudiced. But television conveys many people's opinions by including interviews from various people such as experts and civilians. For example, I once read a book about why global warming is just a hoax. The book contained several reasons and data explaining why global warming is a natural process and there is no need for us to worry about. However, since watching several shows and interviews on television how global warming could be destructive for humans and the environment, I realized that books could convey only limited information and perspectives.
To sum up, television has its own advantages in learning. Visual illustrations help you absorb and understand knowledge compared to reading texts. Also, television can broaden your mind since you listen to other people's opinions. Therefore, television is a better source for learning than books
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, for example, such as, in my opinion, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 52.1666666667 77% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2275.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 420.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41666666667 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89734709371 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490476190476 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 696.6 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.9883503276 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.7916666667 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.20833333333 5.45110844103 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240541400646 0.236089414692 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0796543364526 0.076458572812 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533927714625 0.0737576698707 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167187965505 0.150856017488 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302122679425 0.0645574589148 47% => 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: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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