An increasing number of advertisements on TV nowadays aim at children.
What are the effects of television advertising on children?
Do you think advertisements aimed at children should be controlled?
These days, more and more ads target children. In my opinion, advertisers using children’s gullibility to their advantage will leave lasting consequences to a child , and thus should be closely controlled.
On the one hand, the effects of advertising on children are varied, and mostly negative. To begin with, since children are too young to understand that not everything in an ad is true, advertisements often create false illusions and biases with the purpose of selling more products. A child will naïvely believe a toy is the best toy ever if an ad says so, turning parents into unwilling victims of consumerism. Constant exposure to advertising also disarrange children’s mindset, as many ads promote stereotypes by portraying groups in their traditional or stereotypical roles. Such stereotypes include linking specific groups to products, such as women with cleaning supplies and men with computers. These types of ads foster false beliefs about how certain people should behave and derail children’s future outlook.
In response to the aforementioned effects on children, I firmly believe that regulations on advertisements are necessary due to the following reasons. First, an early exposure to advertisement could lead to a higher level of childhood obesity. Food commercials on TV often aim to change children’s eating habits by encouraging a higher consumption of fast food or candy without any warning of the high content of fat or sugar. Overweight children are likely to stay obese until adulthood, which causes further issues such as higher associated medical costs or declining work productivity. In addition, the relationship between parents and children could also be severely affected. If parents refuse to succumb to children’s spending requests, children might be in denial and respond with passive-aggressive behaviors, which are unhealthy and emotionally uncomfortable for both parties.
In conclusion, most advertisements solely focus on boosting sales at the expense of children's cognitive development, and therefore should be strictly controlled or even limited.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ll leave lasting consequences to a child , and thus should be closely controlled. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, look, so, therefore, thus, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 24.0651302605 33% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1817.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 318.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71383647799 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.35765213964 2.80592935109 120% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.641509433962 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.892464104 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.133333333 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26666666667 7.06120827912 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.374409994861 0.244688304435 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123874979763 0.084324248473 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723882344421 0.0667982634062 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231013511525 0.151304729494 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0363255249927 0.056905535591 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.84 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.89 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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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.