Television has two roles: to inform and to entertain. Explain which of these roles you see as more important. To what extent do you think that TV today performs each of these roles in an effective way? Support your point of view with details from your own

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Television has two roles: to inform and to entertain. Explain which of these roles you see as more important. To what extent do you think that TV today performs each of these roles in an effective way? Support your point of view with details from your own experiences, observations or reading.

Of late, there has been a colossal upsurge among the prodigies discussing the importance of TV as source of entertainment and information. Some people think that TV's are primarily means of entertainment, while others maintain that TV's provide their viewers entertainment as well as keep them updated on latest happenings. This essay will discuss the multi roles of TV in today's world.

At the outset, there are myriad of arguments associated with the role of TV. Firstly the most conspicuous is that programmes casted on TV's amuse people of all age groups. Therefore, TV's not only cast cartoons, movies and dramas for children as well as adults but also they show informative programmes on various channels. For instance, programmes like wildlife, inside Africa and Under the sea casted on "discovery channel" act as a great source of information and learning for the viewers. As a result, it is quite evident that TV's perform both entertainment and informative roles.

On the other hand, another pivotal facet of this argument is the evolution of various news channels on TV. Over time, media has flourished at a very fast pace which has resulted in development of numerous news channel. As an example, in the urge to compete other channels, news channels cast and post updated news providing their viewers latest information on the current scenario and situation in the country. As a matter of fact of fact, role of TV's have now become more informative than to provide entertainment to its viewers.

To recapitulate, foregoing discussion propounds that owing to the casting of various dramas, cartoon, movies, informative programmes and news TV's have now both entertainment as well as informative role.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 331, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'viewers the latest'.
Suggestion: viewers the latest
...t and post updated news providing their viewers latest information on the current scenario and...
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Line 5, column 424, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'of fact'.
Suggestion: of fact
...d situation in the country. As a matter of fact of fact, role of TVs have now become more infor...
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Line 7, column 175, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...nd news TVs have now both entertainment as well as informative role.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, so, therefore, well, while, as for, for instance, as a matter of fact, as a result, as well as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.5418719212 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 6.10837438424 16% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 8.36945812808 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 20.9802955665 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 31.9359605911 125% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.75862068966 260% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1448.0 1207.87684729 120% => OK
No of words: 278.0 242.827586207 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20863309353 5.00649968141 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01854935097 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 139.433497537 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568345323741 0.580463131201 98% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 379.143842365 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.6157635468 43% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.71428571429 233% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 3.65517241379 192% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5997320023 50.4703680194 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.384615385 104.977214359 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3846153846 20.9669160288 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0769230769 7.25397266985 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.33497536946 56% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 2.91625615764 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13428350697 0.242375264174 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0567275799379 0.0925447433944 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0437101340199 0.071462118173 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0871879881485 0.151781067708 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00580378050316 0.0609392437508 10% => 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: 13.8 12.6369458128 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.1260098522 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.9458128079 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 11.5310837438 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.32886699507 111% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 55.0591133005 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.94827586207 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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