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?
In the past, people solely depend on traditional source of information such as newspapers and TV but nowadays, only handful of youngsters actually gets their information from these sources. This essay will discuss possible causes which include technological advancements, convenience and affordability. This essay will also discuss possible solutions.
One of the benefits of technology is that it made life easier and convenient to all. In other words, there is wide range of on-line platforms such as Twitter, Face-book, and Yahoo news providing new feeds on a minute by minute basis which is accessible to majority teenagers. Therefore, they would prefer to get breaking news rather than wait for traditional newspapers which are often printed on a daily basis. Majority youths have Smart-phone which they can access information without necessarily carrying cumbersome newspaper. Also, most youngsters cannot afford newspapers regularly as they are expensive. These are the reasons why only a handful of teenagers read newspapers.
Popularity of newspaper reading among youths can be boosted by changing their presentation and cost. That is to say, traditional news outlets should expand their range and style of disseminating information. For example, newspaper magazines should have online platforms which can be easily reachable by all. Furthermore, printed copies of news should have captivating headlines, brief and interesting. The cost of newspapers should be dropped so that it can be afforded by many.
In conclusion, a lot of teenagers do not patronise traditional media out lets such as newspapers and TV because of technological advancement and convenience but this could be improved by stepping up their game and raise awareness most especially among youths.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, if, so, therefore, for example, in conclusion, such as, in other words, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1516.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 270.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.61481481481 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08786731486 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.596296296296 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.8638613131 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.066666667 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06120827912 113% => 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 : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.137481849392 0.244688304435 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0457751134487 0.084324248473 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0233445628157 0.0667982634062 35% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0823624285262 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.013333047172 0.056905535591 23% => 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: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.96 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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