News stories on TV and in a newspaper are often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words. What is your opinion about this?
TV channels and newspapers have started adding pictures to their news reports to get the attention of their subscribers. It is often argued that adding pictures makes the news article more effective. Although written or spoken text provides more details about any event, I feel images add a visual narrative and help the reader or viewer connect better with what is written.
A lot of information about an event can be narrated via printed text or by a news anchor. We can get specific details of the event like when it happened, how it happened, who were involved etc. to help us get a very good understanding of the event. For instance, Intricate details and chronology of the recent high profile murder case in Kottayam were available in the newspapers and TV channels and this allowed people to understand what really happened. Thus, text and speech are very powerful medium to convey new but pictures provide an additional dimension to the event being covered.
Humans have an intrinsic tendency of wanting to see what happened in additional to what they’ve heard or read. Without pictures, news articles could just be a bunch of information that some people may find it hard to piece together. Many people also may not want to read through all the details and may want to just look at a pictorial representation of the event which will give them a summary of what happened. Taking the example of the high profile murder case I mentioned above, newpapers and channels added images detailing how the murderer broken in to the house, made the get away and traced the route taken by the murderer during his escape. Thus, having pictures enrich the news article and make it more comprehensible for the general public.
Pictures serve to make news articles more interesting and comprehensible to the general public. For that reason, I agree with the argument that adding pictures makes new events more powerful than if they were presented as just plain text or speech.
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- Test topic 11
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 71, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[3]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'reports getting'.
Suggestion: reports getting
...e started adding pictures to their news reports to get the attention of their subscribers. It ...
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Line 5, column 737, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...and make it more comprehensible for the general public. Pictures serve to make news article...
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Line 7, column 81, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...e interesting and comprehensible to the general public. For that reason, I agree with the argu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, really, so, thus, for instance, i feel, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1646.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 336.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89880952381 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59529270366 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541666666667 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5128161761 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.733333333 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13333333333 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => 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: 0.227580956344 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0840099043528 0.084324248473 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619794648634 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152458522966 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0462784422719 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 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.