It has been said that people who read for pleasure have more developed imaginations and language skill than people who prefer to watch TV. Do you agree or disagree?
It is true that developing imaginations and language skill is more enhanced by reading rather than watching TV. There are good arguments and both for and against this view, but I believe it depends on different reasons.
I completely agree with the idea that reading stimulates imaginations and language skill. The first prominent justification is that as long as we read, we have to imagine what is happening in the book. When it comes to science fiction books, imagination is necessary to feel the beauty of outer space or the scenario of future technologies. Moreover, there would be a case that the writing style of the author makes a substantial contribution to language skills. For example, reading plays a vital role in improving vocabulary and helping us to imitate the writing style in speaking and writing skills.
However, I believe that watching TV also brings about enhancing our imaginations and language skills. Firstly, images and sounds from TV shows cause people to remember better the linguistic context since the best way to learn a foreign language is aping local people in memorable contexts which are usually exploited in TV shows. Furthermore, pronunciation and intonation in speaking will be significantly improved only when we watch TV because it is true that reading cannot ameliorate pronunciation and intonation. Last but not least, the final reason could be that sci-fi movies are products of the filmmaker’s imaginary which also develop further imaginary of viewers. For instance, Marvel’s movies have a huge success in recent decades as they satisfy our imagination and, as a result, lead us to come back to our imaginary world of childhood.
In conclusion, while reasons can be given to justify that reading promotes imaginations and language skill better than watching TV, I believe this is not an accurate statement under any circumstances.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1592.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25412541254 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00332934378 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587458745875 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4651775198 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.461538462 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3076923077 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6923076923 7.06120827912 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.288626443112 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10299068596 0.084324248473 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0896379023127 0.0667982634062 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182866815495 0.151304729494 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0421901205407 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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