Television has two roles: to inform and to entertain. Explain which of these roles you see as more important. To what extent do you think that TV today performs each of these roles in an effective way? Support your point of view with details from your own experiences, observations or reading.
Visual media, specifically television, has become more popular in our lives. There may be different reasons why people are finding it more useful but two basic reasons namely "to inform" and "to entertain" stand out. Although Television is serving the purpose of news dissemination but it is more widely used for entertainment. In the busy life of common man, resources for entertainment available at home are limited and that where Television pitches in to help relieving them.
In this era of over hyped life, people have become dependent things of recreation and rely on various programs offered on television that ranges from soap opera to wildlife, from information on tiny organisms to medical lectures. For example, discovery channel runs documentaries on new inventions and exploration whereas Animal planet offers entertainment on wildlife. You name it and a dedicated entertainment channel is available as per the customized need.
Further, of we delve more in the entertainment aspect of television, even news are offered in a way that is entertaining. No doubt news serves the purpose of informing public at large but Television channels like Fox News present news to be more informative and entertaining at the same time. News are being recited by glamorous models to bring the entertainment factor.
To conclude, without a shadow of doubt, more and more people are getting glued to television to seek entertainment in life whether that comes in the form of news of dedicated channel that offers rejoice.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 484, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to relieve' or 'relieve'.
Suggestion: to relieve; relieve
...hat where Television pitches in to help relieving them. In this era of over hyped life...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, whereas, for example, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.5418719212 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 6.10837438424 33% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 8.36945812808 119% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 20.9802955665 62% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 31.9359605911 135% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.75862068966 191% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1303.0 1207.87684729 108% => OK
No of words: 244.0 242.827586207 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34016393443 5.00649968141 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 3.92707691288 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11549548985 2.71678728327 115% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 139.433497537 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598360655738 0.580463131201 103% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 379.143842365 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.6157635468 22% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 3.65517241379 219% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7252813437 50.4703680194 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.454545455 104.977214359 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1818181818 20.9669160288 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36363636364 7.25397266985 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 6.9802955665 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 2.75862068966 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128976644355 0.242375264174 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0518478665572 0.0925447433944 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0204123391536 0.071462118173 29% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.079985454823 0.151781067708 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00678950147265 0.0609392437508 11% => 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: 14.8 12.6369458128 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.1260098522 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 10.9458128079 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 11.5310837438 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.32886699507 113% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 55.0591133005 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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