People think that the news media has influenced people's lives nowadays and it is a negative development. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
For many people, news is a regular part o f life. All issue in dispute is whether the massive
influence o f ihe news media on people's daily lives denotes a negative development. It is n>y view that
news media does more good than harm to the society.
The news media provides people with much o f the information they need on a timely basis,
although there are claims that it reports on issues and events purposely ( only selecting those events that
interest the audience). Anecdotal evidence shows that people from all walks o f life have the habit of
collecting information regularly from the news media, including print, broadcast and Internet-based
media. Information assists people in decision making. For example, the Free Trade Agreement reached
by the Chinese government and its New Zealand counterpart might open up many opportunities to both
counừies. For any business person, either in New Zealand or ill China, failing to recognise and
capitalise on this impending change would cause a costly loss.
Meanwhile it should be rccognised that the news media can sometimes save lives and reduce
casualties. There is a lot o f uncertainty about the surroundings, and people are susceptible to the
damage caused by accidents, crimes and natural calamity. The news media conveys the firsthand
information to concerned audiences and enable them to take corresponding actions right away. The
authority can declare a state o f emergency when it is necessary, organise evacuation and distribute aid
to the needy areas. A ll these efforts count on the news media as the messenger.
Despite their significant and ongoing contribution to the society, the news media might sometimes
be harmixil to society. It is a convention that the news media exaggerates the magnitude of the real
threat (for example, the potential o f a terrorism attack), in order to draw the attention o f the desired
audiences and in pursuit o f high audience ratings. It ends up with causing panic among the population.
Meanwhile, the news media tends to emphasise some issues or events, which virtually have little
relevance to people’s daily lives, such as an occasional multiple vehicle accident, an affair that a
celebrity is involved with, and the like. It distracts the audience from something that is much more
noteworthy, for instance，poverty, environmental problems, to name but a few.
In summary, the role o f news media as an information provider should be acknowledged. In case
o f emcrgcncy, it acts as a lifcsaver. However, it is not to say that the news media can give people an
overall view o f the problems in society all the time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 73, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Meanwhile,
...ding change would cause a costly loss. Meanwhile it should be rccognised that the news m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, so, while, for example, for instance, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2234.0 1615.20841683 138% => OK
No of words: 439.0 315.596192385 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08883826879 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00884863806 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 176.041082164 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548974943052 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 698.4 506.74238477 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 10.0 2.52805611222 396% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3120423468 49.4020404114 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.380952381 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9047619048 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 7.06120827912 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 28.0 4.38176352705 639% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.247199127206 0.244688304435 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0751124631462 0.084324248473 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0658596442717 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0661521460054 0.151304729494 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741832256236 0.056905535591 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 78.4519038076 166% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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