The mass media, including TV, radio and newspapers, have great influence in shaping people’s ideas. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.
The only way which people acquire information about the world is through social media, TV, radio and/or newspapers. Even though some people believe that they are not affected by those media, others think that they do play an intrinsic role. In my opinion, I tend to agree with those people who believe that they are influenced by mass media.
First of all, what is shown on TV is a true fact. It makes individuals behave accordingly. For example, in 2005, the tornado Catrina razed some location in the south of Brazil and people living nearby were advised by U.S. authorities to leave the area. Unfortunately, some died and others suffered some injuries. Therefore, people had to belief that the tornado will be devastating.
Moreover, when it is the election time, everyone leans on the candidates' promises. They are influenced by candidates' speeches so that they vote for them. They lay upon their beliefs that their candidates are proposing the truth. For example, according to the New York Times, during the last U.S. election, people were persuaded by Facebook to vote for Donald Trump, similarly to what had happened in Brazil last year. Thus, when someone reads newspapers or any social media, they tend to become persuaded.
Finally, people are easily persuaded by media because they do not critically reflect on what they read, see or hear. They sometimes lack knowledge to validate the information.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, finally, first, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, thus, for example, first of all, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.5418719212 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 6.10837438424 16% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 8.36945812808 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 5.94088669951 168% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 20.9802955665 119% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 31.9359605911 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1181.0 1207.87684729 98% => OK
No of words: 234.0 242.827586207 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04700854701 5.00649968141 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 3.92707691288 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56618505177 2.71678728327 94% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 139.433497537 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.580463131201 106% => OK
syllable_count: 369.9 379.143842365 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.5024630542 73% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3488124567 50.4703680194 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.7333333333 104.977214359 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.6 20.9669160288 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 7.25397266985 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178961718032 0.242375264174 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0572749342387 0.0925447433944 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572137818519 0.071462118173 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108872484997 0.151781067708 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.056728323508 0.0609392437508 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 12.6369458128 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.1260098522 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.9458128079 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 11.5310837438 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32886699507 99% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 55.0591133005 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.3980295567 77% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.5123152709 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 58.5 Out of 90
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.