Write about the following topic:
In many countries, very few young people read newspapers or follow the news on TV. What do you think are the causes of this?
What solutions can you suggest?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
Globally it is being reported that young children do not keep abrest of developments that are of national and international importance.
This is either by the way of newspapers and the television. Statistics from reputed organisations like the World Information forum and
the United Nations for Children's development have revealed that this trend is declining alarmingly by 17% year or year.
In this essay I will present the chronic reasons for this decline and recommend ways to stem this tide.After doing a survey of young teens
in my locality, the feed back I have received is that the news events being dicussed and how it is being presented and communicated is very
difficult to understand. This is in both the print and television media. For example,the government of the day decided to to ban imports of Chinese
products into the country. The reasons given were economic in nature, that effected small and medium sized enterprises,impacted exports and a drop in foreign
exchange reserves. Another situation these young minds described was too much of focus on religious differences, animosity between poitical parties.
In order to develop an interest and to improve the readership of newspapers and or to follow the news on TV, I am lead to believe that the
following should be considered for implementation. Government and private channels should have dedicated programs for young audiences to
particiate and debate on local and national topics. It should cover various subjects such as sport, politics, history,healthy living and community harmony.
At schools and colleges, there should be projects given to students to discuss, comment and write essays on national and international events.
Parents should also allocate some time a day to read and discuss topics of interest with their children. By taking these actions I am sure it will once again
lead to young children to once again develop an interest in the news.
To conclude all is not lost, by taking a few logical initiatives we will stem the tide. Together we can do this. We all play a part,
either in goverment, media houses, educatonal institutions and as parents.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ected small and medium sized enterprises,impacted exports and a drop in foreign exchange...
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...es, animosity between poitical parties. In order to develop an interest and to i...
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...edicated programs for young audiences to particiate and debate on local and natio...
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...ubjects such as sport, politics, history,healthy living and community harmony. At schoo...
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...ts given to students to discuss, comment and write essays on national and interna...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, as to, for example, such as, by the way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1828.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 350.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22285714286 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99251310672 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588571428571 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 558.0 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.8852968001 49.4020404114 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.529411765 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5882352941 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.11764705882 7.06120827912 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 16.0 4.38176352705 365% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.01903807615 159% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.166281256389 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0492446626844 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434056823778 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0495470040727 0.151304729494 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037475502413 0.056905535591 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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