“In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books”
We live in an age where we are submerged with the use of electronic products. There could be no other time in history where we are influenced by technology in various aspects of life. One of the game-changers was the television. Its introduction and development have led people employ these magic boxes for various activities ranging from entertainment to discovery channels to even learning. Due to its influence, various questions whether televisions can overtake books to teach people have risen up, just like the statement above. However, I disagree to these questions and the statement as Books remain to be man’s best friend.
To start with, as stated in the introduction, books were and will remain to continue to be man’s best friend. Books have influenced us since childhood. Various fairy tale stories have helped us to picture the story with our own imagination and helped us to be creative. Most importantly, these stories have helped us to inculcate certain moral values that are required in our life. For instance, reading various stories such as “Cinderella” and “Snow white”, have helped us to widen our imagination in our own way. By reading these books with the help of parents, the way the story was paced, the freshness the green fields and kingdoms have left us spellbound. Along with them were certain values required for our growth. On the other hand, the television adaptation of these stories are based on the imagination of the people behind the adaptation and have curbed the way we perceive the story. Therefore, books have played a key role than televisions to help expand ones creativity and imagination while instilling moral values.
Secondly, Books helps us focusing on a certain topic rather than a television stacked with an infinite number of programs. Books such as autobiographies help us to focus the life of a personality more thoroughly than a biopic movie. The main reason for this is the involvement of advertisements and other programs which have the tremendous potential to deviate our attention to a topic. For instance, the book based on Howard Hughes helps us to understand the life of the entrepreneur, the challenges he faced towards success , his fight against obsessive- compulsive disorder more deeply. While reading the book, one would look at the world in Howard’s shoes. Even though, the film adaptation was critically acclaimed, it fails in making us to see in Howard’s shoes and his vision. Moreover, the inclusion of various programs relating to entertainment helps us to forget the use of television to learn new things. For example, consider the fact that two programs run parallel at the same time. One program is focusing on a new study whereas its competitor is showcasing an action movie. In this situation, majority of the people falls to the program showing the movie.Therefore, televisions are considered as means of entertainment eventhough certain programs are focused on the objective of learning.
Finally, people tend to learn deeply while reading a book than watching television. Successful entrepreneurs and business magnates have contributed books to teir success. For instance, Bill Gates says that books have helped him to take important decisions in life. He even asserts the youth to invest their time in reading books as books bring the best out of them.He has even made it an habit to read atleast one hour a day to gain knowledge. Books such as “Zero-to-One” and “4-hour workweek” are among the best books that is required for an individual to learn personal traits such as compassion, cooperation and leadership skills. Watvhing Televisions does not help an individual to attain such skills that are required to the driving force in the world.
To conclude, the introduction of television have influenced us in various aspects of life. The use of television in education segment is still in its rudimentary stages.On the other hand, Books have been the source of knowledge from the begiing of time and will continue to be so as the primary source of knowledge.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, whereas, while, for example, for instance, such as, to start with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 98.0 58.6224719101 167% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 12.9106741573 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3447.0 2235.4752809 154% => OK
No of words: 667.0 442.535393258 151% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16791604198 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.08196252842 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09143407879 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.458770614693 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1069.2 704.065955056 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9079946626 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.454545455 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2121212121 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.06060606061 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291215501487 0.243740707755 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0788570284908 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753265071945 0.0758088955206 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168984532513 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.088185349136 0.0667264976115 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 153.0 100.480337079 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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