Children today spend more time watching television than they did in the past. Describe some advantages and disadvantages of television for children.
A few decades ago, owning and watching television was a luxury that was not available to everyone. Due to the industrial revolution and mass production of goods, a child today watches more television than any other time in the course history. Spending many hours in front of the television has its merits and demerits.
On one hand, television is a wonderful source of information and learning. It keeps individuals and children updated with news from around the world. News shows can improve general knowledge and aptitude. Furthermore, it is also perceived as an efficient source of entertainment for leisure time. Some households use television on a regular basis to bond with family. For instance, my family comes together to have dinner and watch some of the most famous shows every day and call it 'family time'.
On the other hand, television is also known as the idiot-box for a reason. It believed to dampen the strength of a human's brain due to high levels of entertainment and unnecessary information. Binge watching television is an unproductive waste of time. One of the leading causes of obesity and other cardiovascular diseases is the sedentary lifestyle led by many. Watching television for many hours at a time could further worsen this and affect health negatively.
In conclusion, the advantages and disadvantages of watching television for extended periods of time vary on a case by case basis. It greatly depends on how easily a child could be influenced by the information on television and the kinds of shows he or she watches.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, if, so, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1301.0 1615.20841683 81% => OK
No of words: 258.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04263565891 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96817494367 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 176.041082164 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.573643410853 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.6421750908 49.4020404114 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 81.3125 106.682146367 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.125 20.7667163134 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5625 7.06120827912 65% => 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 : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.38498823748 0.244688304435 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107134070724 0.084324248473 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0728166288574 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213816198106 0.151304729494 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0282756039882 0.056905535591 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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