Children nowadays spend a great deal of time watching television. However, television cannot replace the book as a learning tool, which is why children are less well-educated today
In the modern world, the issues surrounding the educational role of television has fuelled a social controversy. Some claim that an overly excessive amount of time spent on watching television makes children less well-educated. This essay will take a social perspective to show the reason why I cannot agree totally with this claim.
In the current society it is common sense that watching television has a great deal of benefits as a learning method. The most remarkable element is an audio visual effectiveness, in particular, which carries considerable weight in learning languages. Through watching TV children can learn listening, reading and speaking skills at the same time. Which is impossible with books. Furthermore, TV programs offer more attractive resources such as animation and 3D technology, which make children more easily concentrated on learning. On the other hand, television can shorten learning hours. For instance, watching an hour-long discovery channel is roughly equivalent to reading a couple of books.
However, no one doubts that there are some drawbacks in watching television. Firstly, a decline in creativity and imagination will be a pivotal problem since most of TV programs do not offer much time for children to think in depth. Secondly, health problem is a big issue. Children tend to eat junk foods or any of their favorite snacks while watching TV. This can lead to obesity. Furthermore, harmful electro-magnetic waves emitted from a TV deteriorate eyesight and also cause visual disturbances, such as eye-strain, blurred vision, etc.
Lastly, TV makes children lazy due to addiction. Children tend to forget or procrastinate their homework and other important things when they get engaged in the attractive TV shows.
In conclusion, despite television has obvious demerits, it is also a true fact that watching TV is more advantageous than reading books in some part. Therefore, it is hard to say that not only watching TV is the main reason of children’s academic performance declining but also it can completely replace books as an academic method. I believe that the appropriate combination of television and books is the best way to improve children’s academic ability
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 292, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to listen'.
Suggestion: to listen
... Through watching TV children can learn listening, reading and speaking skills at the sam...
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Line 3, column 349, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Which” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...g and speaking skills at the same time. Which is impossible with books. Furthermore, ...
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Line 8, column 164, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eading books in some part. Therefore, it is hard to say that not only watching TV...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, in particular, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 350.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36285714286 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06804597789 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582857142857 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.2380696089 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.380952381 106.682146367 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6666666667 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.2380952381 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.334053312046 0.244688304435 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0892391927724 0.084324248473 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.068580453929 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17031108486 0.151304729494 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0722855549898 0.056905535591 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.0946893788 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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