Write about the following topic:
Today the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold.
To what extent do you agree with these views?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Nowadays, driving sales of products has become the main goal of companies. The debate that advertising makes these spectacular figures, not the real demands of society, has both supporters and opponents. This essay will discuss their opinions.
Firstly, some people think it is not true. It is partly because the starting point of any transaction is demand and supply. This means that goods are traditionally produced to meet one’s needs. In a typical company, for instance, the marketing and sales team has two functions which include increasing sales and acquiring customers’ feedback. Based on these, top leaders can decide which products to promote and which to stop. Furthermore, another factor in boosting sales can be promotion. Usually, people buy this product over the other because the first happens to be a good deal seasonally for example. In brief, needs are a must in most cases for a product to be purchased.
However, plenty of people agree with the statement. Their first reason is “the crowd effect” describing a person’s action of following a group of people that is doing the same activity. This is due to humans’ desire to fit in and feel belonged. Iphones by Apple are unarguable demonstrations. As soon as people in your network have the newest version, you may feel curious and develop a certain interest. With others’ positive reviews and encouragement, you are likely to end up getting one yourself. The second is companies’ budget for advertising, especially large ones. Thanks to this generous spending, advertising managers can hire the most accomplishing team which typically involves a copywriter, a graphic designer, and a marketer. Besides, there are social media platforms and new tools for search engine optimization and marketing. The total combination is likely to produce impressive sales. In summary, people do not always buy out of their real needs. A partnership of new advertising tools and well-funded, well-staffed advertising teams can make a huge impact on the outcome.
Goods sales often occur in response to consumers’ needs but that is not all. Today’s advertising advances have had a significant influence on selling results. Therefore, I agree with the statement mentioned.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...his essay will discuss their opinions. First of all, a few people think this is...
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...ork on other things to get good sales. Plenty of people agree with the statemen...
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...search engine optimization and marketing SEO and SEM. The combination of all thes...
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...l-staffed team can give a sales boost. In conclusion, popular goods sales often...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, well, for example, for instance, in brief, in conclusion, in summary, first of all, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => 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: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2056.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 412.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99029126214 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74983611196 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 176.041082164 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558252427184 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => 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: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 16.0721442886 168% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.7704670451 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.1481481481 106.682146367 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2592592593 20.7667163134 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85185185185 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.67935871743 196% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212268692461 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519163384046 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0387300063565 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137592880396 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0411019341339 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.0946893788 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 50.2224549098 129% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.3001002004 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.07 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 9.78957915832 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...his essay will discuss their opinions. First of all, a few people think this is...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ork on other things to get good sales. Plenty of people agree with the statemen...
^^^
Line 5, column 866, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...search engine optimization and marketing SEO and SEM. The combination of all thes...
^^
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...l-staffed team can give a sales boost. In conclusion, popular goods sales often...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, well, for example, for instance, in brief, in conclusion, in summary, first of all, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => 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: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2056.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 412.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99029126214 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74983611196 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 176.041082164 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558252427184 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => 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: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 16.0721442886 168% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.7704670451 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.1481481481 106.682146367 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2592592593 20.7667163134 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85185185185 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.67935871743 196% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212268692461 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519163384046 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0387300063565 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137592880396 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0411019341339 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.0946893788 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 50.2224549098 129% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.3001002004 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.07 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 9.78957915832 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...his essay will discuss their opinions. First of all, a few people think this is...
^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ork on other things to get good sales. Plenty of people agree with the statemen...
^^^
Line 5, column 866, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...search engine optimization and marketing SEO and SEM. The combination of all thes...
^^
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...l-staffed team can give a sales boost. In conclusion, popular goods sales often...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, well, for example, for instance, in brief, in conclusion, in summary, first of all, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => 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: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2056.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 412.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99029126214 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74983611196 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 176.041082164 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558252427184 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => 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: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 16.0721442886 168% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.7704670451 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.1481481481 106.682146367 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2592592593 20.7667163134 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85185185185 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.67935871743 196% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212268692461 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519163384046 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0387300063565 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137592880396 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0411019341339 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.0946893788 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 50.2224549098 129% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.3001002004 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.07 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 9.78957915832 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.