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These days, there is an ongoing debate among people about television and if it should be viewed as a positive or negative impact to society. While it is possible to claim that television provides a source of entertainment to people, my view is that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. In this essay, I shall explain my point of view by analysing both sides of the argument.

There are several reasons why television is considered to be disadvantageous to society. One of them is that viewing of television can be a source of distraction in our life, turning away our focus from the more important things in life. It can also be argued that we tend to waste hours in front of the television instead of working on our goals and ambitions in life. It should also be taken into account that children at a young age spending too much time in front of the television. For example, some people spend all of their free time in front of the television instead of working on productive activities.

Those who argue for televsion have a different view and say that it can actually be a good thing. Firstly, it is claimed that television can be a good source of information to learn new things if used correctly. Then, there are concerns about people not viewing television to be unaware of current events and latest news around the world.

While there are strong arguments on both sides of the case, my personal opinion is that television usage is best avoided or minimized as we should focus on other productive tasks instead. I would strongly recommend that people reflect on how much time they currently spend on watching television and think about how this time can be put to better use.

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Average: 1.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 340, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...vents and latest news around the world. While there are strong arguments on both...
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Line 7, column 64, Rule ID: PERSONAL_OPINION_FRIENDSHIP[1]
Message: Use simply 'opinion'.
Suggestion: opinion
...arguments on both sides of the case, my personal opinion is that television usage is best avoide...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, if, so, then, while, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.5418719212 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 6.10837438424 164% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 5.94088669951 168% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 20.9802955665 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 31.9359605911 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1402.0 1207.87684729 116% => OK
No of words: 297.0 242.827586207 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72053872054 5.00649968141 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68761961777 2.71678728327 99% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 139.433497537 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52861952862 0.580463131201 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 448.2 379.143842365 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.6157635468 195% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.65517241379 27% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.1220922231 50.4703680194 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 107.846153846 104.977214359 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8461538462 20.9669160288 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92307692308 7.25397266985 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 2.75862068966 217% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0270179441165 0.242375264174 11% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0115153147555 0.0925447433944 12% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0175038164648 0.071462118173 24% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0185626646434 0.151781067708 12% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0145600649107 0.0609392437508 24% => 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: 12.2 12.6369458128 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.1260098522 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.9458128079 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 11.5310837438 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.32886699507 93% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 55.0591133005 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 11.1111111111 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 10.0 Out of 90
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