In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books.
The speaker asserts that people can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading. In addition to this, the speaker states reading books is not as important as it once was. I concede that television or videos can be used for learning, but not in every aspect of learning. In most respects these newer media serves as a poor substitute for book.
Admittedly, using television for learning has certain benefits over reading books. For example: while giving a presentation in your company about the quarter one sales of all the products, where you have to present temporal and spatial data and convey your statistical analysis to the executives. Presenting them through a short video would convey your information easily as compared to reading just reading out to them. The journalist also face a hard time these days to write and express about certain events that they cover for example: a ballet dance or any classical dance form where body language and gestures play an important role, would serve best when watched on television rather then reading about it.
However, speaker overlooks several aspects where learning through books is more pragmatic and suitable. A book is easy to carry, does not break, has no side effects on excessive reading, requires no charging or connection, you can refer back as and when you want etc. Where as viewing television for a longer time affects our eyesight, rendering our eyes to stress and even headache. The speaker is ignoring the media industry, which is believed by many to be controlled by the elites of the nation or government. Not ignoring the fact that, media industry, whose sole purpose is to make business and earn profits, reports filtered news and events on their channels.
A final argument where learning through books standout way ahead of learning through television sets, is how our brain perceive and interprets when we read something compared with when we see a video. For example: a paragraph from the New York Times or The Economist that your are reading to improve your reading abilities for reading comprehension for GRE exam, you cannot fulfill your purpose by watching a video of the news as you need to pay more attention to words used and understand their usage in the sentence. And this is what defines true learning, where you read by yourself, create image in your own understanding and you will remember it if you do this in a right way.
I would like to conclude this by stating that television and videos is a better way to keep one updated with the current affairs and also in teaching of arts students that involve moving imagery. However through books one can learn better and which can never be replaced by televisions or videos. In all we should use both the sources available as per our requirement, side by side, and gain the most out of it.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 692, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'? 'than' is used for comparisons, 'then' is an expression of time.
Suggestion: than
... best when watched on television rather then reading about it. However, speaker ...
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Line 5, column 269, Rule ID: WHERE_AS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Whereas'?
Suggestion: Whereas
...an refer back as and when you want etc. Where as viewing television for a longer time af...
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Line 7, column 667, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a right way" with adverb for "right"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...and you will remember it if you do this in a right way. I would like to conclude this by st...
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Line 9, column 233, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...ry. However through books one can learn better and which can never be replaced by tele...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'for example', 'in addition']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.227443609023 0.238963963785 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.171052631579 0.154291517835 111% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0657894736842 0.0886310499679 74% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0432330827068 0.0506014161523 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0657894736842 0.0449626384858 146% => OK
Prepositions: 0.122180451128 0.123526278965 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0563909774436 0.0379742944744 148% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.54061009947 2.82910677849 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0281954887218 0.0316879551592 89% => OK
Particles: 0.00187969924812 0.0014075125626 134% => OK
Determiners: 0.0864661654135 0.0950106342287 91% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0225563909774 0.0245489744465 92% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0300751879699 0.0157978311181 190% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2849.0 2899.98275862 98% => OK
No of words: 488.0 478.390804598 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.8381147541 6.0591788892 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.65681771538 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.329918032787 0.369966551584 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.272540983607 0.285172536893 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.178278688525 0.207245337619 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.100409836066 0.136322040163 74% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54061009947 2.82910677849 90% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 234.298850575 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532786885246 0.492565540709 108% => OK
Word variations: 63.905979719 56.8184620615 112% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 21.1264367816 90% => OK
Sentence length: 25.6842105263 23.7468607788 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.9311052739 62.0618507366 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.947368421 143.81877709 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6842105263 23.7468607788 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.526315789474 0.728815259664 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.71264367816 52% => OK
Readability: 52.938308887 52.2641144681 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.44966442953 1.64547068916 88% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.406341380682 0.39480681544 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0864155170293 0.11556216369 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0677747679848 0.0736162880345 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.502513840263 0.531340600358 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.109432854595 0.15197228837 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.162973511104 0.158818324754 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.146270350145 0.0851127212816 172% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.2892473335 0.388921930462 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0486233477646 0.0677916285025 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301244364557 0.28015025965 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.179755531377 0.0610219844235 295% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.8591954023 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30459770115 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.96264367816 60% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 8.10632183908 123% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.93390804598 76% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.04597701149 98% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 15.0862068966 106% => OK
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Rates: 82.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 5.0 Out of 6