TPO-08 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television advertising directed towards young children (aged two to five) should not be allowed.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Currently we are living in a media eccentric world, where we along with our family spend significant amount of time with different forms of media, among which television is one of the most influential and readily available one having it;'s audio visual power to entice the viewers. With the success of television, advertising has become a big business around the world. Though, at the beginning these adverts were mainly targeted towards adult people, nowadays fierce competition bring those companies to even make advertisement targeting to young children even aged within two to five. I strongly disagree with this idea mainly for its impacts on children's uninformed choice and affordability of the parents.

First and foremost, young children do not have the judging capability of the products advertised to them rather they may become happy with the color or a same aged baby dancing and chewing a gum, without knowing the consequences. As a result children sometimes suffer from health hazards. You can take the example of my nephew aged 4 by now. His parents used to make him watch television so that they can feed him easily. Being fan of cartoons he was exposed to a lot of child targeted adverts of chocolate products. This in fact changed his apatite and made him sort of addicted to chocolates. Down the line after two years he is suffering from dental problems and chocolates are identified as the cause. I am not arguing that chocolate is a bad food rather I also like them a lot, but the amount my nephew consumed at his age, was terribly high which cost him his health.

Secondly, all the parents in the world does not posses same level of affordability. And this becomes burden the children ask for costly stuffs from their parents showing particular advertisements. Where adult people can restrict their desire according to their ability, children always dreams of the sky; they are not limited by the facts. As a result it becomes tough for parents to satisfy their children. My own experience can be a good example here. When I was five, I was craving for a bi cycle which was advertised in our local television channel every afternoon during my favorite show. Back then though it was a big purchase for my family budget my mother gifted me that cycle. last year I cam to know how my mother borrowed the money for the cycle and cleared the loan from family budget in subsequent months. Knowing this really made me become very sorry for my parents. I believe I would not be so much wanting for the cycle without watching it's advertisement on television.

In conclusion, television has revolutionized our society in many ways. As everything has two sides of the coin, children target advertisement is one of the dark side of television based marketing due the children's inability to differentiate and parents unequal affordability.

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Average: 9.3 (4 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 28, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a medium' or simply 'media'?
Suggestion: a medium; media
Currently we are living in a media eccentric world, where we along with ou...
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Line 3, column 231, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... gum, without knowing the consequences. As a result children sometimes suffer from...
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Line 3, column 463, Rule ID: A_LOT_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun child seems to be countable; consider using: 'a lot of children'.
Suggestion: a lot of children
...Being fan of cartoons he was exposed to a lot of child targeted adverts of chocolate products....
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Line 5, column 687, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Last
... budget my mother gifted me that cycle. last year I cam to know how my mother borrow...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, in fact, sort of, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 43.0788530466 132% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2397.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 484.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95247933884 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81835373679 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568181818182 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 764.1 618.680645161 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Interrogative: 3.0 0.994623655914 302% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.4464395271 48.9658058833 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.875 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1666666667 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45833333333 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160454603561 0.236089414692 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0442811204964 0.076458572812 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0379351583251 0.0737576698707 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103816453786 0.150856017488 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301263743448 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: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 86.8835125448 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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