Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Reading is more educational than watching movies or TV.

Education is a very important aspect of our lives. If the person is knowledgeable than he/she is a valuable asset for the society. We should gather knowledge from wherever possible. I do not agree that reading provides more information than watching movies or television. There are some reasons to it which I am going to explore in the following essay.

First and foremost, I believe that watching film or television has more impact on person's mind. The person remembers the information for the longer period of time as compared to the reading. I have personally experienced this difference. I am very fond of watching documentries of famous personalities. I had watched the documentary on Princess Diana long time ago. The film is still fresh in my mind and I remember almost all the details given in it. Although I am habitual of reading novels and informative books, but it does not remain in my memory for the longer period of time. Thus, I can say that watching movies or TV is more preferable way over reading.

Besides this, I think that educating yourself through videos is more entertaining way of gaining knowledge rather than reading. One can watch channels like Discovery or National Geographic to enhance the knowledge on science or history related topic. Additionally, there are many news channels available nowadays that make us aware of events happening around the world. This is more fun way of getting cognizant.

In contrast, reading is boring to many people. It may act as soporific to us. I usually fall asleep while reading. At the same time it takes efforts to remember something that you have read, while watching does not require much efforts to grasp some information and thus an easier way of becoming intellectual as compared to the reading.

To sum up, although both reading and watching films or TV are helpful in enhancing the knowledge, however, I personally believe that second option works better for me.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, still, thus, while, i think, in contrast, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 52.1666666667 71% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1624.0 1977.66487455 82% => OK
No of words: 327.0 407.700716846 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96636085627 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78746135432 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.577981651376 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 618.680645161 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.1344086022 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.5706018401 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 73.8181818182 100.406767564 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.8636363636 20.6045352989 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63636363636 5.45110844103 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259640385768 0.236089414692 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0668435499619 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0915850862938 0.0737576698707 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135177221496 0.150856017488 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0665958527853 0.0645574589148 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 11.7677419355 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 10.1575268817 87% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.95 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.0537634409 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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