Some people believe that time spent on television, video and computer games can be beneficial to children. Others believe this has negative effect on a child. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
With the proliferation of television, computer and other high-tech devices, children are more engaged on TV programs, computer games, etc. However, whether time spent on them bring more good or harm remains a controversial issue. In my own opinion, there are more negative effects on a child’s development.
Supporters of time spent on television, video and computer games argue that it helps to broaden the kids’ horizons. The fact that many children are learning new things on educational programs and making more friends through communities of computer games can be a supportive example. Another added advantage is that through these entertainments, kids can be relieved from the heavy burdens of school work.
However, a stronger argument can be made from the opposite position. Part of this argument is that kids are easily addicted into entertainments such as TV programs and computer games due to the lack of self-control, resulting in distractions, fatigue of eyes and brain, etc. Furthermore, these children will be under the risk of being exposed to questionable contents such as violence and eroticism, which will cause negative effects in their growth. This will further lead to more serious results such as poor grades, diminution of vision and other health problems and thus is both physically and mentally harmful.
I am personally convinced that the drawbacks of watching TV, playing computer games outweigh the advantages. Children are vulnerable to negative influences, thus they should be protected carefully. In addition, there are better ways to broaden their horizons and relax -- out-door exercises, reading or traveling are all wonderful ways to explore the world.
Therefore, it is better if children are guided to participate in various activities than to sit at home, being a coach potato or playing online games all day round. Anyway, to ensure our kids a positive and healthy childhood, more efforts should be done by parents and teachers.
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Discourse Markers used:
['anyway', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'in addition', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.27094972067 0.247107183377 110% => OK
Verbs: 0.142458100559 0.155533422707 92% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103351955307 0.0946595960268 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0502793296089 0.0501214627716 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0251396648045 0.0437548338989 57% => OK
Prepositions: 0.111731843575 0.122226691241 91% => OK
Participles: 0.0530726256983 0.0403226058552 132% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.93428521164 2.80594681477 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0279329608939 0.0326793684256 85% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0670391061453 0.0861772015684 78% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0223463687151 0.021408717616 104% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00279329608939 0.011925033212 23% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1982.0 1933.35771543 103% => OK
No of words: 313.0 316.048096192 99% => OK
Chars per words: 6.33226837061 6.12580529183 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20517956788 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.408945686901 0.374742101984 109% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.348242811502 0.28420135186 123% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.258785942492 0.203846283523 127% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.137380191693 0.137316102897 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93428521164 2.80594681477 105% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.037074148 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594249201278 0.56093040696 106% => OK
Word variations: 66.273682191 60.7387585426 109% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0891783567 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.8666666667 20.7743622355 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8097353193 49.517814964 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.133333333 127.492653851 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8666666667 20.7743622355 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.6 0.814263465372 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 55.6909478168 49.1944974215 113% => OK
Elegance: 2.0 1.69124875643 118% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303397841192 0.332605444948 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.106434136106 0.102741220458 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0651599047203 0.0668466124924 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.556879044282 0.534860350844 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.121193846163 0.148594505496 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120678196872 0.134430193775 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617722712929 0.0742795772207 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.268893262548 0.324371583561 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0347959993685 0.0638462369009 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186411492284 0.228012699653 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0566281366159 0.058150111329 97% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.68436873747 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.41683366733 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 8.0 5.90881763527 135% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 11.0 10.4468937876 105% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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