I agree with the statement that reading is more educational material than TV or movies because books or articles usually let me create my own opinion or world to the topic I read about. However, the movies or TV has some disadvantages to me. I will give instances to hold my opinion.
The first reason is about disadvantages through movies and TV. It has different expression and shooting styles depends on a director. Sometime, they would cut off the small part from original story because of their not enough cost or time limitation to make movies. Moreover, they remove characters from the original resources that the director thinks its not necessary to make the end of story. For example, I have read about the diary of Anne Frank and I watched a documentary movie after reading however there have not been some scenes about the event happened to her. I was disappointed because at least for me it was memorable story from the original book. Hence, even the history or trustworthy story, the directer could remove it so the movies or TV program are not enough to say good educational tools.
The second reason is that impression made by the vocabulary or sentence the author used are valuable to create images and opinion to the story. For instance, when I read the story about two young teenagers romance, I had vision in my head. The writer wrote like " the sky is dark blue and no clouds" or " I do not live in this world without you even I had robot's eyes" and it led me to make a image from the words. Usually, written words expression is a bit different from spoken words so it is hard to imagine but the good thing is I can create my own world and let characters be there. Through my experience, if I could imagine from the words, its more effective to study. For example, we have to draw three dimention model in our head when we solve the math question or chemical composition. Therefore, I would say its obvious that reading is helpful to get your brain activated.
All of considered, I would say that reading is more effective and better educational material than movies or TV.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 412, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...robots eyes' and it led me to make a image from the words. Usually, written ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, at least, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1746.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 377.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.63129973475 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59080187596 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525198938992 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2901823499 48.9658058833 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.0 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9444444444 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 5.45110844103 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213526923573 0.236089414692 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0648713771709 0.076458572812 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0791498960287 0.0737576698707 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160553814651 0.150856017488 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0724065082095 0.0645574589148 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 11.7677419355 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.57 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 86.8835125448 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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