Believing or not the newspapers
While the primary purpose of newspapers issuance is informing and updating the society on different subjects, they can lead to misinformation as well. Some people believe that newspapers cannot be relied upon, and it is so naive to accept what is written in papers without scrutiny. On the other hand, there are people who believe that newspapers are the thermometers of society and, despite some narrative flavoring and excitions, the core information they provide should be regarded as true. I personally agree that it is not reasonable to believe whatever we read in the newspapers for the following reasons.
First of all, the funding and financial considerations may affect the management of a newspaper to spread some biased information. For example, I remember a local paper started issuing multiple articles on the biohazards of tomatoes produced by some local greenhouses. After a while, it was revealed that an opponent producer had paid the editor to write negatively about his rivals. There have been a significant number of discovered cases of fraud and dishonesty among editorial boards of newspapers around the world, which all rooted from monetary incentives.
Second, the political partisanship is part of news professionalism. It is well-known that depending on the political inclinations of the editorial board of a newspaper, the reporters cover only some specific aspects of the news. The way a single piece of information is organized and provided can lead to specific perceptions. For example, when a left party paper enthusiastically advocates a rally, the right wing papers discourage participating in it. Both the papers give strong and apparently logical arguments; however, none of them cast the light on all aspects of the rally, in order to cast a guided notion to the readers’ mind.
Finally, newspapers should have enough revenues to stand the huge expenses of professional journalism. Keeping the readers enthusiastic about a specific newspaper, and eager to continue their subscriptions is not easy. Exaggeration and storytelling techniques are required to attract the readers. Therefore, there are always some kind of white lies in the stories that are sold to us as information.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that being skeptic of news and not regarding them as true unbiased information is much wiser than unconditional trust.
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- The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner."Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central 57
- Integrated writing. 85
- Integrated task- international working day 90
- Do you agree or disagree? An uneducated person can not teach anything to an educated person. explain your stand in details. 87
- Summarize the points made in lecture being sure to explain how they contrast with Specific points in the reading passage 84
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, finally, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, kind of, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2011.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 374.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37700534759 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13533771533 2.67179642975 117% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.524837075471 112% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.171274668 48.9658058833 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.722222222 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7777777778 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.27777777778 5.45110844103 170% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270718783301 0.236089414692 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0748641131579 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0991888574781 0.0737576698707 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13194573206 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.134116479188 0.0645574589148 208% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 10.9000537634 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.01818996416 116% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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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.