Today people are surrounded by all kinds of advertising. This affects what people think is important and has a negative impact on people’s lives.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Advertising is indeed widespread nowadays, from TV commercials, radio ads, newspapers, magazines and even on the internet such as in YouTube and Facebook. While advertisements actually have a positive impact on the economy, I think the harm they are causing the lives of people witnessing them is serious. In many cases, advertising can mislead, distort reality, and create unrealistic expectations.
Advertising often deceives consumers by using false and confusing information in promoting a product. A good example of this is a bank promoting loans saying that they impose very low-interest rates but hiding large and unfair charges. Once all the documents are signed, that’s the only moment they would discover they are trapped.
Moreover, advertising distorts or manipulates by enticing consumers to live up to the standards set in the ads and forgetting about reality. For instance, an ad can convince a member of its audience to buy a luxurious car or jewelry using different techniques like a bandwagon and as a result, the victim buys the product without considering his actual capacity to pay.
Another way by which advertising harms the consumer’s mind is through the creation of unrealistic expectations. Companies usually edit photos and videos of endorsers or models making the target market believe that the effect is due to the use of a beauty product being promoted. Consequently, the consumer buys the product and ends up disappointed.
In conclusion, the misleading, distorting, and unrealistic qualities of advertising, indeed, are a threat to the consumers for they deceive, manipulate, brainwash, and enslave them. However, these can be prevented if the consumers are made aware of the venomous schemes of advertising and meticulous in distinguishing reliable advertisements. Finally, the government must be more stringent in regulating the production, publication, and airing of false advertisements.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, finally, however, if, moreover, while, for instance, i think, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in many cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1644.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 295.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57288135593 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.31878083546 2.80592935109 118% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.64406779661 0.561755894193 115% => OK
syllable_count: 516.6 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.532729917 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.428571429 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0714285714 7.06120827912 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0537971631601 0.244688304435 22% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0179265261954 0.084324248473 21% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342003071905 0.0667982634062 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0279736403006 0.151304729494 18% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0256913471577 0.056905535591 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.19 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 11.2359550562 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 9
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