Is it a beneficial for those people who stop reading and listening the news for few days and weeks?
From Straits Times to Fox News, the emergence of a large number of news outlets renders receiving information across geographical boundaries possible. While some people believe reading news allows people to have a more comprehensive understanding of the events going on around the world, I maintain that stopping reading or listening to news occasionally could be beneficial to people for they can have an invaluable chance to relax from hectic school life or work life and develop a more critical perspective towards global events.
To begin with, ceasing reading or listening to the news for a short while enables people to have a rest from a busy life. Being bombarded with a large amount of information, people need to spend extra energy to filter through the news and capture the important information. At the same time, they are also busy with their school work or careers. Therefore, stopping reading news could be a perfect chance for them to have a rest and concentrate on their tasks instead of being distracted by the various types of news reported. For example, I used to work for my high school news station to report happenings around school. Before important examinations, the school would ask us to stop issuing newspapers or broadcasting news so as to allow students to unwind themselves and focus on the examinations, which was proven to be effective in improving students’ grades. Therefore, ceasing reading or listening to the news would definitely be beneficial for people to relax from hectic life.
Moreover, stopping reading or listening to news provides an excellent opportunity for people to develop critical thinking towards news. Undeniably, the news reported is usually carefully selected by news agencies and edited by reporters or editors. As a result, the information people received has been processed or even manipulated, causing information deemed to be insignificant by news agencies to be neglected. By stopping reading news, people could pay more attention to news happened around them and review the events from their own perspective without being affected by the editors’ opinions. In this way, people could be more critical towards opinions presented by the news and maintain an objective perception even after starting reading news again.
However, some argue that people would be unable to catch up with the latest happenings once stopping reading or listening to the news. Given the fast-changing nature of society, a large number of events are happening at the same time around the world. Therefore, the news reported could be totally different from those reported one week ago, thus causing people unable to follow up on the newest events. However, such worry is unnecessary since many news agencies have online websites where past issues can be easily found. As such, after relaxing for a week, people can easily refer to the websites to find out what has happened in the past few days and catch up with the current affairs.
In conclusion, while reading news is an important means to learn about our surroundings and even global affairs, stopping reading or listening to the news for a short while would not leave negative effects on people and could allow them to relax and develop their own perspectives towards current events. Therefore, people should stop reading news occasionally.
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| 2019-11-11 | change_gc | 73 | view |
| 2019-04-03 | MD. TOUKIR HASAN | 73 | view |
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 50, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...its Times to Fox News, the emergence of a large number of news outlets renders receiving informat...
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Line 5, column 727, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...issuing newspapers or broadcasting news so as to allow students to unwind themselves and...
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Line 13, column 179, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...en the fast-changing nature of society, a large number of events are happening at the same time a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, thus, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 43.0788530466 44% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 52.1666666667 167% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2823.0 1977.66487455 143% => OK
No of words: 542.0 407.700716846 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20848708487 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78450695512 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446494464945 0.524837075471 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 870.3 618.680645161 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.0074391264 48.9658058833 149% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.428571429 100.406767564 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8095238095 20.6045352989 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61904761905 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.415552398594 0.236089414692 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149795934908 0.076458572812 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0995738684331 0.0737576698707 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271383260095 0.150856017488 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0225711551267 0.0645574589148 35% => 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: 16.0 11.7677419355 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 10.9000537634 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 86.8835125448 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.002688172 190% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.