Essay topics: News stories on TV and in newspaper are often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words. What is your opinion about this.

Essay topics:

Essay topics: News stories on TV and in newspaper are often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words. What is your opinion about this.

Nowadays, new stories play an important role in broadening our knowledge as well as informing us of everyday occurrences around the world. Most news reports are also added with several strike images. However, it is argued that the photographs are more valuable and useful than words in articles. The following paragraphs will discuss this view and my own perception.

It is reasonable to believe that the photographs of a news story are more effective in contrast with the numerous words. First of all, pictures can express the situation of a certain event or incident more directly and efficiently, as people are able to obtain the basic information by merely spending a few seconds browsing those photographs. In addition, a series of researches have also demonstrated that most people have impressive proficiency in assimilating the information or data depicted by pictures rather than words, since human memory is more sensitive to visual images. Therefore, even after a long period, the memory of a certain news story still can be triggered by going through relevant pictures.

On the other hand, some people believe that words are the more effective than pictures. The words provide us with more comprehensive and specific account of a certain occurrence, which contributes to promoting our understanding. A research news article, for instance, the data results can be directly displayed by pictographs, but the painstaking procedures and conclusion must be described with words for readers to comprehend. In the light of such fact, pictures sometimes are solely the auxiliary components of a news article.

In my opinion, words and pictures are the equally crucial parts of a news report. Pictures enables readers to quickly and easily acquire and remember the basic information while words are beneficial to the comprehension of the whole news story.

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Average: 7.8 (3 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, well, while, for instance, in addition, in contrast, as well as, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1572.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31081081081 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9582559567 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 176.041082164 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564189189189 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 501.3 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.127777772 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.285714286 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.2857142857 7.06120827912 174% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.233770114 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0843648025875 0.084324248473 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650124573242 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133082817247 0.151304729494 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431317141159 0.056905535591 76% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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.

flaws:
No. of Different Words: 167 200 //We are actually expecting:
No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

Among all features, the No. of Different Words and Unique words percentage are the most important features.

There are two approaches to get higher marks (8.0 or over).

approach 1:
No. of Words are around 300, the No. of Different Words are around 180

approach 2:
No. of Words are around 350 and more, the No. of Different Words are around 200 and more

relatively speaking, the approach 2 is easier. In approach 1, you will use the words very efficiently. While in approach 2, when you develop more content with more unique words, the examiners will not ask a very high Unique words percentage.

Writing an essay in 40 minutes around 350 words is not a difficult job. and according to our feedback, people with higher scores deliver more content than average users do. Read a real story by a testbig user why more content:
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 296 350
No. of Characters: 1531 1500
No. of Different Words: 167 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.148 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.172 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.867 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 115 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.945 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.786 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.556 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5