Children watching tv
With television becoming ubiquitous across different culture and countries, it comes as no surprise that young children spend more time watching TV channels than ever before. In my opinion, this negative development is mainly caused by changes in the family model.
As the access to communication devices grows, television becomes more available. Members of many communities can access programmes on mobile devices, making watching tv the entertainment of choice not only at home but also while out and about. Adding to it recent changes in the family model, like the nuclear family becoming increasingly common, mothers taking on paid jobs and necessity to complete the chores in the afternoon, society approached relatively new situation: television used as a baby sitter. A recent study at the University of Keele shows that 85% of children are left in front of the TV for more than an hour, while either of the carers can complete the chores.
While watching television is not a negative way of spending free time and can have an educational value, I believe that children are left in front of the TV too frequently, and it tends to have a negative impact on their development. Firstly, British Children's Charity does not recommend watching TV at all for toddlers under the age of 2, as it tends to have a detrimental effect on their cognitive skills. With the kids' age, the problem of overexposure becomes more noticeable: Sleep Clinic at Birmingham Children Hospital recently published the research shows, that 80% of school-age children have a problem falling asleep, as a result of blue light generated by electronic devices like TVs and tablets.
In conclusion, the transition of the female role in the family is a primary reason behind children glued to the television for prolonged periods of time. I strongly belive that this habit has an adverse effect on mental, emotional and social lives of young people.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, so, while, in conclusion, as a result, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1615.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09463722397 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80332859217 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567823343849 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 513.0 506.74238477 101% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.8542091252 49.4020404114 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.818181818 106.682146367 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8181818182 20.7667163134 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.54545454545 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => 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 : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.323982591505 0.244688304435 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117044559345 0.084324248473 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10572287012 0.0667982634062 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189611340034 0.151304729494 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0895921654127 0.056905535591 157% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.0946893788 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 50.2224549098 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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