Reading books keeps a person’s mind active, whereas watching films and television is passive and does not require a person to use their imagination.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Submitted by ammaracca on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 07:15

Studies have shown that brain activity peaks when someone reads a book and this is not surprising. While readers use their imagination and keep their brain active, television audiences do not need to imagine any scene and hence their brain remains inactive. This essay, therefore, agrees with the given statement that reading makes the mind active because in a book the author uses words to describe situations and readers imagine the complete context but television programmes explicitly show what they want you to see.

When we read a book we have to create images in the mind. The process of reading a book requires some preparation as well. Readers have to choose a book, buy it and spend hours and hours reading it. Using imagination is a key aspect of reading because the writer only describes situations and characters with words and the reader has to imagine every scene in the mind. For example, a recent survey by Colorado University found that 85% of people who read the same book are likely to describe the characters differently. This shows how imagination plays a crucial role while reading a book.

On the other hand, television audience do not imagine situations. Films and television programmes already have their characters, places and situations, which limit the use of the audience’s imagination. Watching a movie just requires a person to sit in front of the screen without even thinking about the situations because they are already filmed. To illustrate, many people opined that they preferred reading the book called “Fifty Shades of Gray”, because the film’s characters and places were not as good as in the book.

To conclude, it is not hard to see that television audience stay passive in front of the TV while readers actively use their imagination to visualise the scenes and characters portrayed in the book.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...itly show what they want you to see. When we read a book we have to create images...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, so, therefore, well, while, as to, for example, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1563.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 307.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09120521173 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73555523101 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.524429967427 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 489.6 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.0139439579 49.4020404114 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.642857143 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9285714286 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.78571428571 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.338103258446 0.244688304435 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11234910574 0.084324248473 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0453634611953 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194960508286 0.151304729494 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598614884418 0.056905535591 105% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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