Compare the advantages and disadvantages of three of the following as media for communicating information. State which you consider to be the most effective.
• comics
• books
• radio
• television
• film
• theatre
In today's world, various media and our dependency on them have become quite significant in our life. I believe media like television, radio, book, film, theatre and comics have different advantages and disadvantages as they have subtle differences in the way they convey a message and communicate information. The discussion about the positive and negative aspects of three media- TV, radio and books, will be explained followed by my opinion about the most effective medium and finally, a rational conclusion will be drawn.
First of all, as a modern medium, television has become a part of human life. Most people nowadays have this medium as the tool to get useful information. Even for entertainment, they rely on their TV sets. There is scarcely any house that does not own a TV set. However, it can make people passive, as the viewers just sit on their chairs to watch it. In addition, research shows that TV programmes are addictive and can be a huge waste of time for many.
Secondly, radio has an important value in human life too. This tool is helpful for visually impaired people and interestingly we can work and enjoy radio at the same time unlike TV and carry it with us everywhere we go. In contrast, radio signals are sometimes weak and limited only in a specific area. Over time this medium is losing its popularity.
A book not only shares invaluable information but also contains the facts. Data collected from the past are stored in a book and this is the base for future research. The books help people widening their mind, enhancing their knowledge and learning new things. The books are so far the best medium for communicating information- generation to generation, past to future and are the base of our modern civilisation. I personally think that this is the most effective medium so far and will remain so for many coming generations. Except for the time and patience it requires, I do not find any disadvantages in reading books.
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that every medium has its own advantages and demerits. In addition, books are the most effective media they can widen human's minds and convey knowledge from one generation to another.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, except for, in addition, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 10.4138276553 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 24.0651302605 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1831.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 374.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89572192513 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74802448937 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548128342246 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.4504290035 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.1904761905 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8095238095 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06120827912 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.67935871743 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.247787962182 0.244688304435 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0607683669349 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0544286795563 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128759367672 0.151304729494 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0751177222927 0.056905535591 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.0946893788 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.