Some people believe that children can learn effectively by watching TV and should be encouraged to watch TV both at home and at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Watching TV has been considered as an effective way to acquire knowledge and some people argue children could benfit a lot by doing so both at home and at school. In my opinion, although some television programs can be educating, too much screen time can be harmful for children.
First of all, studying by television results in the lack of communication, which is critical for effective learning. Television could offer children the existing knowledge, but unlike teacher, it can’t guide them according to their questions and respondings. Thus, children are prone to give up when they meet some difficulties. In this way, they can never have a deep understanding of the knowledge.
Another problem is that the absence of teachers means the lack of monitoring. When watching television, children can be easily distracted by something else. For example, when they are sitting in the sofa watching TV, their pets may appear and attract their attention. It is unlikely to stay focused during the process of watching TV, considering there are so many distractions like smart phones and snacks in these days. But with the supervision of teachers, such situation can be avoided.
On the other hand, I do agree some knowledge can be taught in a more vivid way by television. Television can teach children knowledge by pictures and videos. For example, watching the actual life of animals can leave students a deeper impression than reading from books.
In conclusion, because of the lack of communication and monitoring, watching TV is not the best option to study effectively, although sometimes children can learn vividly from it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, thus, for example, in conclusion, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1376.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 266.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17293233083 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89869858767 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.62030075188 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 506.74238477 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.3858336292 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7333333333 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7333333333 20.7667163134 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361034427938 0.244688304435 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108307485432 0.084324248473 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0957775462827 0.0667982634062 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20241089473 0.151304729494 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109151666335 0.056905535591 192% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.0946893788 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 78.4519038076 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => 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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