Some people think that what children watch on television will influence their behaviours. Others think that the time they watch television influences their behaviour most. Discuss both views and give your own opinion?
In the today’s modern world, as children grow and develop, they can be easily influenced by what they see and hear, especially on television. While I accept that the amount of time that youngsters spend watching television does affect them, I would argue that the content of the programs influences them most.
On the one hand, there are a variety of reasons why the length of time that children use to watching TV has significant effects. First, sitting in front of TV screens for too long is detrimental to children’s health. For example, children who are addicted to watching TV, instead of playing outdoor games, are more prone to obesity. If they keep their eyes glued to screens for several hours, waves from devices may cause headaches as well as eye diseases. Second, too much TV watching can also take away time from reading, studying and learning activities of youngsters. This leads to them do not have much time to enlarge their knowledge or develop their soft skills, they are more likely to fall behind with their studies at school.
On the other hand, it seems to me that the images in television programs have more marked influence on young people. On reason is that some TV programs can show alcohol and drug use, smoking, and sexual behavior, which makes children have more tendency to develop improper behavior. For instance, watching violent films does make children more aggressive because they are likely to imitate character’s activities. This can put a child at a higher risk of violent behaviour, which could ruin their future. Furthermore, TV may also show children poor eating habits through commercials for high-calorie and low-nutrient foods. Some food items such as cookies, candy and ice cream, which is high in calories and low in nutrients, is displayed in some commercials attracting children to buy. Thus, the likelihood of them carrying potential health risks such as eating disorders is considerably high.
In conclusion, although both the content of television programs and the length of time children watch are disadvantages in their own ways, I believe that what children watch affects them more.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1803.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 354.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09322033898 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73873370842 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581920903955 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 522.9 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.6175618065 49.4020404114 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 112.6875 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.125 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.125 7.06120827912 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.288156315446 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0915542414839 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718526332353 0.0667982634062 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207030350027 0.151304729494 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647414536797 0.056905535591 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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