Today, the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is true that an increase in the sales of prevalent consumer merchandises is originated from advertising rather than our actual demands. There are good arguments both for and against this view, but I believe this depends on different reasons.
I completely concur with the idea that advertising leads to higher consumption of some ubiquitous consumer goods. The first prominent justification is that advertising has manipulated consumer behavior. It is acknowledged that advertisers have been striving to persuade people that purchasing a commodity will make them more delighted. Furthermore, the purpose of advertising is not only altering behaviors but also causing humans to live in a consumer culture, which means that as soon as advertising occurred, people inclined to follow the latest trend and associate certain brands with higher status. Following latest trendy outfit is a prime example for consumerism which is stimulated by advertising. Consequently, the growing sales of some popular consumer products stem partly from the manipulation of advertisers.
However, I believe that several common consumer goods are also driven by the true needs of the community. First, the health aspect of consumer goods, especially healthy foods, play a more pivotal role in our awareness. It is due to the fact that the occurrence of foodborne diseases has raised the awareness of food safety. The whole food, for instance, is one of the agricultural products gaining popularity by real demands. Second, there are increasing sales of high-tech products which are indispensable for end-users without much advertising nowadays. As a matter of fact, if electronic devices had not appeared, humans would have failed to deal with a ton of tasks in work as well as daily activities as in today’s society.
In conclusion, while reasons can be given to justify that advertising is the reason for rising the sales of common consumer goods rather than the real demands of people, I believe this is not an accurate statement under any circumstances.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, as a matter of fact, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1739.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 322.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40062111801 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01743196186 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583850931677 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => 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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6925372548 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.933333333 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4666666667 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 7.06120827912 146% => 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 : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217121106378 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0681482127444 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.038700416557 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124423072209 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0251502604192 0.056905535591 44% => 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: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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