It can be said that books have been a principal source of knowledge, and many people think that reading books enhances our intellectual abilities more than watching TV. I do not wholeheartedly agree with this opinion for several reasons, as we shall see.
On the one hand, books play a crucial role in education and in helping people to learn about life and many other things. At all stages of education, students learn mainly from books with the assistance of their teachers and parents. Although the range of books is significantly large and each type is suitable for a certain group of people, they are all beneficial to our language skills, namely reading and synthesizing information. Moreover, books with pictures and interactive contents can enrich the imagination of children, therefore making them more creative and inventive.
Nonetheless, it is by no mean accurate to say that reading books is better than watching TV in improving our language skills and imagination. Firstly, TV programs, especially foreign language channels will tremendously help improve our listening skills that cannot be achieved through reading. Secondly, children at early age are unable to read and write, hence toys and TV channels for kids appears to be the most effective means of teaching. Through lively cartoon characters integrated with simple lessons, children can gradually perfect their language abilities as well as cognitive development. In addition, watching TV is a natural preference of many people, so there is no scientific evidence to conclude that those people are less creative or their language competence is worse than book lovers.
In conclusion, I think that both reading books and watching TV are beneficial in developing our intellectual abilities but the way in which they affect might be different.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, i think, in addition, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1536.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 289.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31487889273 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88564303765 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602076124567 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.7273034161 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.0 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0833333333 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.75 7.06120827912 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296920748621 0.244688304435 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105451230997 0.084324248473 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701867453129 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178398858063 0.151304729494 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522902031725 0.056905535591 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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