In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as
much by watching television as they can by reading books.
The author states that watching television nowadays can be as equivalent as to reading books. The author's claim is unsubstantial and vague. There are no evidences to prove the author's claim. In my ensuing paragraphs, I would justify that the author's view is naive and not at all profound.
It has been rightly said that human mind works in mysterious ways. Things we see for one time is equivalent to things we read ten times. As whenever we observe / discern something, we make a mental picture of the same thing and that helps to find a way to get back to that memory whenever required. It is very easy to fetch the same visual record from our sub-concious mind within seconds. While the same thing is not possible with reading. It is said that as soon as we stop reading something, our mind starts forgetting. And it takes many revisions to learn the same thing. This narrow viewpoint will lead many people to think that people should watch more then reading. But as said by DALAI LAMA," We have wider free ways but narrower viewpoints." There is a reason why schools emphasize on reading more and more, rather then watching a movie or something on television.
When a guy readas something, he tries to make a mental picture of the same, the mind of the person works creatively to create that mental picture. And everyone who read the same thing will make their own visual picture. For young students, this process is very important as it leads to the growth and development of a child's mind. If schools starts showing every students a video and make them stop reading books then the required creativity that is ameliorated through reading will not take place. Also reading stuff helps in increasing language, vocabulary, thinking capacity, concentration etc.
Finally, I would like to state the obvious, People learn what they see. And many times the media is biased and the true facts are not laid out to the layman. This leads to brainwashing of general population. Many things shown on television are not useless and are of no use to growing children. They even have adverse effects on the minds of younger generation. This may lead to serious damage to children's delicate and callow minds. Nowadays there are very few programs on selected channels that helps in improving knowledge and overall development of people.
And from above points I would like to conclude that the though we learn faster when we see, it should not be the dogma for present generation to just watch and stop reading. If the author's claim were so true, then why does such big Newspapers company still exist? Why does still lots of books / novels are sold? Why hasn't any governments, even in various developed countries, has implemented the idea of watching instead of reading? The answer is, Everyone knows that the television was an important invention and quite useful. But its advantages are limited and it has been used more for entertainment, rather then EDUCATION or increasing KNOWLEDGE of people.
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- In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn asmuch by watching television as they can by reading books. 83
- Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated. 62
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'while', 'as to']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.211908931699 0.240241500013 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.192644483363 0.157235817809 123% => OK
Adjectives: 0.101576182137 0.0880659088768 115% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0630472854641 0.0497285424764 127% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0472854640981 0.0444667217837 106% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0893169877408 0.12292977631 73% => OK
Participles: 0.0490367775832 0.0406280797675 121% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.61909719015 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0350262697023 0.030933414821 113% => OK
Particles: 0.00175131348511 0.0016655270985 105% => OK
Determiners: 0.0788091068301 0.0997080785238 79% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0175131348511 0.0249443105267 70% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0192644483363 0.0148568991511 130% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3000.0 2732.02544248 110% => OK
No of words: 515.0 452.878318584 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.82524271845 6.0361032391 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.32427184466 0.366273622748 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.236893203883 0.280924506359 84% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.161165048544 0.200843997647 80% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.106796116505 0.132149295362 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61909719015 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 219.290929204 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520388349515 0.48968727796 106% => OK
Word variations: 62.76232999 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6194690265 150% => OK
Sentence length: 16.6129032258 23.380412469 71% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9899101821 59.4972553346 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7741935484 141.124799967 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6129032258 23.380412469 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.354838709677 0.674092028746 53% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.21349557522 153% => OK
Readability: 40.3022236142 51.4728631049 78% => OK
Elegance: 1.15606936416 1.64882698954 70% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307744329515 0.391690518653 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.080791526147 0.123202303941 66% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0695069990988 0.077325440228 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.422633242945 0.547984918172 77% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.09445204032 0.149214159877 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940114141146 0.161403998019 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0784296926296 0.0892212321368 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.345498653212 0.385218514788 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0516005143989 0.0692045440612 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202246305306 0.275328986314 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486911133976 0.0653680567796 74% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.