News stories on TV and in newspapers are very often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that there pictures are more effective than words.
What is your opinion about this.
It is often said that "a picture speaks a thousand words". While it is an undeniable fact that today's media be it print, television or digital tend to use a lot of pictures to convey key messages, whether or not pictures are more effective at communicating the message than words is highly debated. In my opinion, though pictures are more effective than words in many situations, pictures alone may not always get the right message across and may need to be combined with words. In the following paragraphs, I will try to justify my stance with the reasons and relevant examples.
Prior to the discovery of photograph, i.e., till the second half of 19th century, print media was the most popular form of the media. Any form of mass communication, be it subject matter, books, news etc. was primarily done using print media. However, once photograph was discovered, people were quick to realize that pictures can be a very effective way to communicate which sparked their widespread adoption. Now-a-days, majority of the literature or text contain pictures which itself speaks for how effective pictures can be at conveying the message.
In addition, a person reading text may need to use his imagination to picture things in his mind and since the imagination varies from individual to individual, it introduces some ambiguity in to how the message is received. But, a picture on the other hand makes things very clear and leaves very little up to one's imagination. For instance, consider a text article in a newspaper on malnutrition and food scarcity in a backward country. When one reads the text they may or may not be able to relate to the content completely since it depends on various factors such as how effectively the article is written, how sympathetic the reader is and his imagination. But, when one looks at a picture of a poor malnourished person in a poor country, it conveys the true reality and gravity of the situation effectively and ends up stirring ones emotions.
However, some times, pictures alone too may not be able to convey the full context about the message that one is trying to communicate. For example, a picture of a politician delivering a speech in front of the audience will not be able to convey the exact content of his speech. Moreover, pictures can often be used to mislead the ones that are looking at them, for example, a picture with two controversial figures in it may lead to a lot of speculations and can be interpreted in the wrong way when in reality, they may have met casually or by coincidence.
In summary, though pictures often communicate the message better and are more effective than words, neither pictures nor words alone may be sufficient to paint a complete picture for the audience. A combination of pictures and words on the other hand can be extremely effective at ensuring that the key messages reach the target population and are interpreted
the right way.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...he target population and are interpreted the right way.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in summary, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 13.1623246493 213% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 7.85571142285 229% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 41.998997996 160% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2446.0 1615.20841683 151% => OK
No of words: 501.0 315.596192385 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88223552894 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.20363070211 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8274268606 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 176.041082164 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477045908184 0.561755894193 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 794.7 506.74238477 157% => 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: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.1026761281 49.4020404114 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.736842105 106.682146367 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3684210526 20.7667163134 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.94736842105 7.06120827912 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => 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: 0.19319598568 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0650516097116 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053211266463 0.0667982634062 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120429657188 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042137663159 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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