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
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
People’s life and way of thinking has always been influenced by means of transmitting information, known as mass-media. Although nowadays these can be available nearly everywhere, most of them are characterized by both positive and negative aspects. Books, television and radio are three different sources of information which people frequently use, but I consider that TV is, by far, the most useful.
Despite the fact that books are one of the reasons why trees are chopped down and some authors, through their writing, can influence negatively readers, books were one of the first mean of information. They can contain scientific data, results and representation, which are vital for knowledge. Take, for instance books with stories. These are red to most of the children before they fall asleep, contributing the way they dream.
On the other hand, although radio is available mostly everywhere, the lack of visual information is a huge disadvantage. Moreover, nowadays teenagers are not very interested in using such a mean and sometimes is found obsolete.
Since the appearance of television, the place of written and spoken sources of knowledge has been substituted. Data can be sustained by visual elements. Consequently, it is easier for people to understand a message because non-verbal aspects are involved. Moreover, technological advances contributed to the joy of watching TV. But, there are also some disadvantages which involve need for electricity and lack of portability.
In conclusion, each person can decide which mean of knowledge is more suitable. Although books and radios are still popular, my opinion is that the most efficient is TV. This is especially due to technological improvements which are made.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'consequently', 'first', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'still', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21974522293 0.247107183377 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.165605095541 0.155533422707 106% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0891719745223 0.0946595960268 94% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0700636942675 0.0501214627716 140% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0254777070064 0.0437548338989 58% => OK
Prepositions: 0.124203821656 0.122226691241 102% => OK
Participles: 0.0509554140127 0.0403226058552 126% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.1225387906 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0127388535032 0.0326793684256 39% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0031847133758 0.00163938923432 194% => OK
Determiners: 0.0732484076433 0.0861772015684 85% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.015923566879 0.021408717616 74% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0191082802548 0.011925033212 160% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1739.0 1933.35771543 90% => OK
No of words: 271.0 316.048096192 86% => OK
Chars per words: 6.41697416974 6.12580529183 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.20517956788 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.372693726937 0.374742101984 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.317343173432 0.28420135186 112% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.258302583026 0.203846283523 127% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.188191881919 0.137316102897 137% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1225387906 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 176.037074148 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.616236162362 0.56093040696 110% => OK
Word variations: 67.5880539327 60.7387585426 111% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0891783567 106% => OK
Sentence length: 15.9411764706 20.7743622355 77% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9356585135 49.517814964 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.294117647 127.492653851 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.9411764706 20.7743622355 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.647058823529 0.814263465372 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 47.6754938138 49.1944974215 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.51219512195 1.69124875643 89% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.411387202673 0.332605444948 124% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0638691690142 0.102741220458 62% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0508394282551 0.0668466124924 76% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.510743914485 0.534860350844 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.143806174066 0.148594505496 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143708385673 0.134430193775 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829988280221 0.0742795772207 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.233227278589 0.324371583561 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0416056905339 0.0638462369009 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252104855479 0.228012699653 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0847997474642 0.058150111329 146% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.68436873747 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.41683366733 176% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 5.90881763527 85% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.5751503006 78% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 1.9629258517 102% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 10.4468937876 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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