Widespread advances in technology have improved the overall quality of life across the world. Unlike people in the past can exclusively gain knowledge through reading. Modern inventions provide us with more convenient tools and various channels to acquire information. Television is such example. One click away, people can watch news from all over the world and gain information from different areas. Thus, whether watching TV is more beneficial for people than reading books is hotly debated in our society. Were I forced to choose, I believe that reading books is still the best way to learn more about the world. I will elaborate on it in the following passages.
First and foremost, the information we gain from watching TV is superficial. The intention of inventing TV is for people's pleasure. From a whole perspective, it plays the role of entertainment most of the time. People tend to use it to watch soap dramas and movies. Though broadcasting news is one of its important parts, most news on television is short and shallow. You can learn the date or main characters of the hottest event, but if you want to dive deep to learn more about the whole story or background information, you still need to find some particular books and read them.
The second reason that needs to be considered is that watching television isn't an effective way to learn. People cannot focus on it if other materials on television distract them. My sister's experience can be a compelling example of this argument. She used to watch TV to learn important news. At first it seems effortless and more convenient, because the news will report the outline of the events, so she can understand it easily. However, after a while, she found that each piece of news didn't contain much useful information. Other channels on TV, like movie channels or talk shows distracted her studies too. She then abandoned this method and backed to books for study.
Admittedly, watching television is important to some extent. It can help people learn the latest news instantly. That's the advantage books can never compete with . The process of publishing a book is time-consuming. Nevertheless, from the whole perspective, reading is better than watching movies in terms of quality and depth.
In conclusion, based on what has been discussed above, we can safely say that even watching television has some advantages, reading books is still the most important way to learn information.
- Do you agree or disagree with the statement that it is always right for governments to ask people to move their businesses and houses to provide space for the construction of large structures new roads new dams etc 86
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Nowadays more and more people spend too much money on their pets dogs cats and others although there are better uses for this money 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Children should spend most of their time on studying and playing and they shouldn t be required to help family with household chores such as cleaning and cooking 76
- if universities are given financial support to develop researches which one do you think would receive more benefits a To predict weather more accurately b To clean rivers and ocean c To deal with outer space 76
- It is more beneficial for people to stop reading or listening to the news for a few days because there are too many news stories around the world 70
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, then, thus, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2054.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 408.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03431372549 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78350019559 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539215686275 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 615.6 618.680645161 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.1344086022 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2244200217 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 73.3571428571 100.406767564 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.5714285714 20.6045352989 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21428571429 5.45110844103 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.369496144336 0.236089414692 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089229584209 0.076458572812 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533266448996 0.0737576698707 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215996562682 0.150856017488 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592632506822 0.0645574589148 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 11.7677419355 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 58.1214874552 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 10.1575268817 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.3 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 86.8835125448 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.0537634409 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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