It is sometimes argued that reading benefits people more than television programmes in terms of creative thinking and literacy skills development. I completely agree with this statement.
Reading books is a process about receiving information from the books’ writers. It allows you to immerse yourself in another world. To get into this world, you have to fully understand the meaning of each sentence, and then exert your imagination to build the world the author created. At the same time, books，especially those written by famous writers, are better in word choice and grammar than most TV programs, reading which helps you build an enormous amount of vocabulary words in certain areas. For example, J. K Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, portrays a magic world with engaging plots and marvelous words. Children have accumulated a variety of vocabulary from reading the novels as well as develop a great deal of imagination about magic, wizards and magicians. However, when the movie company adapted them into films, there are always readers dissatisfied with the films, which could explain why books prevail over television in terms of the improvement of language and imagination.
On the other hand, I would argue that the main role of most television programmes is to entertain audiences; they do not require much thought. People tend to regard watching TV as a good way to relax, thus TV companies cater to their users by offering superficial programmes such as soap operas, reality shows or entertainment news. When you turn on the TV, it is common to see the majority of channels are inundated with these shows and advertisements. People can learn very little knowledge from them, not to mention develop their creativity or language skills. If people are long-time exposed to them, they will stop thinking profoundly and become superficial.
In conclusion, it seems to me that reading books has a positive impact on people’s creative thinking and language ability development, while watching TV may affect adversely.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1725.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 327.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2752293578 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89486331507 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62996941896 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.7769884819 49.4020404114 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.8125 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4375 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0625 7.06120827912 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => 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: 0.252567319691 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0725053248329 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474539433623 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153148237852 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0205533699967 0.056905535591 36% => 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: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 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.