Some believe the primary purpose of museums is to entertain people while others believe their purpose is to educate Discuss both views and give your own opinion

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Some believe the primary purpose of museums is to entertain people, while
others believe their purpose is to educate. Discuss both views and give your
own opinion.

Submitted by rame on Sat, 05/02/2020 - 14:38

Museums fulfil different things for different people. On the one hand, many people feel a
museum’s primary purpose is to entertain. However, others feel they function to foster
understanding. Both arguments will be analysed before a conclusion is declared.

Firstly, some argue a museum’s main purpose is to amuse. For example, the Museum of
Natural History in Ottawa limits descriptive placards and instead uses life-sized exhibits
that allow visitors to role play historical moments. Although this approach is stimulating and helps visitors better envision life at certain points in time, it does little to impart
a full understanding of the broader historical themes at play. Thus, the merits of this
opinion are hard to support.

An alternative position argues that the primary purpose of museums is to educate. For
example, the British Museum in London heavily placards its exhibits to provide its visitors with the tools needed to be informed about what is on display. Although perhaps
not as visually stimulating, patrons leave this museum with a much richer understanding
of historical topics and the underlying trends that were at work during certain periods
of time, an approach that offers perspective on modern day life and humanity as a whole.
Thus, the heightened benefits of museums that focus on educating can clearly be seen.

After looking at these different points of view, I feel that museums better serve the public
when they are organised to educate as opposed to entertain. Thus, I hope that the museums of the future are arranged primarily for this purpose.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, look, so, thus, for example, i feel

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => 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: 1364.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 255.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34901960784 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72532373592 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 506.74238477 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.489373096 49.4020404114 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4285714286 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2142857143 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 7.06120827912 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 16.0 4.38176352705 365% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187830717608 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0760203904341 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075787367873 0.0667982634062 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0643038339391 0.151304729494 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0715083623964 0.056905535591 126% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.67 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 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.

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, look, so, thus, for example, i feel

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => 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: 1364.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 255.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34901960784 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72532373592 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 506.74238477 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.489373096 49.4020404114 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4285714286 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2142857143 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 7.06120827912 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 16.0 4.38176352705 365% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187830717608 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0760203904341 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075787367873 0.0667982634062 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0643038339391 0.151304729494 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0715083623964 0.056905535591 126% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.67 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
---------------------
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.