Some people say that television is useful for education while others say it is useful only for entertainment. Discuss both views and give your opinion?
People have differing views about the purpose of television whether it is for education or was designed only for entertainment. While televisions can educate people through educational programs, I believe that they are mainly used to entertain.
On the one hand, people can learn by watching different TV channels with educational content. This is to say that TV is an effective medium of learning because people can gain information and enhanced their knowledge. They become aware of the things that are happening around them. For example, the National Geographic Discovery channel features about global warming, which is a huge threat to our planet. Those who spend time seating in front of their screens will be educated more thus will tend to take initiatives to help address this matter. However, some people, especially in third world countries, do not have access to televisions as well as educational TV programs but they still learn through other methods.
On the other hand, people tend to use TVs as a way to spend their free time. Watching movies or TV series is the most common reason why individuals turn on their televisions especially if they are off from work or school/ By doing this, they can relax and enjoy which are the main benefits why people buy and use televisions. For instance, a survey conducted by the Department of Health in the Philippines revealed that 70% of Filipino households have two or more televisions because each family members have a different preference for movies and variety shows as a way to wind down from a tiring and stressful day. Therefore, I agree with the idea that televisions are intended to entertain people.
In conclusion, I understand why people believe that TVs are helpful to educate people but it seems to me that entertainment is the major reason for using a TV.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, still, therefore, third, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, 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: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1535.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 307.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76020146636 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579804560261 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.2375066596 49.4020404114 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.076923077 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6153846154 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5384615385 7.06120827912 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304588376637 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106857253088 0.084324248473 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870396110124 0.0667982634062 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21606723046 0.151304729494 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0992707173582 0.056905535591 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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