Children today spend more time watching television than they did in the pastDescribe some of the advantages and disadvantages of television for children

Nowadays, most of the children are glued on their seats in an extended period watching the shows on the television. The introduction of cable TV have also increased the viewership of these youngsters giving them more channels to choose from. There are numerous outcome for this trend both positive and negative.

One of the perks of prolonged viewing is that children become aware of their surroundings. By tuning into the news they gained insight on what is currently happening. Another positive outcome is that they become knowledgeable by watching educational shows. The informations coming from the educational programs like National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel may have widened their knowledge and made them more intellectual. In addition, television keeps the children entertained. Programs like Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon are so amusing and entertaining for the children hence they learn to sing and dance and become active audience while watching the shows. There are also programs from the local shows which promote moral values such as respect, honesty, and the likes which in turn re-enacted by young minds thus they learn the importance of it.

On the other hand, the drawbacks of children having an exorbitant time watching the television is that it is time consuming. Children became idle because they are hooked into watching their favorite shows that they do not have time to actively participate in recreational activities nor have time to study. They are also prone to hurt themselves. Children tend to follow what they watch and hear from the box. For example, action movies are being shown and stunts are being followed by younger audiences resulting to accidents. In addition, some movies promote violence and because not all children are guarded by their adults they end up watching those violent scenes. It can be instilled in their fresh minds and may end up projecting those violent behaviors at home or at the school. Furthermore, what they hear from the box like profanities coming from the mouth of the actor or actress are being followed by young audiences since they do not know the meaning nor can distinguish whether it is good or bad.

In my opinion, the excessive time spent by the children in watching television programs has its pros and cons. However, it should be regulated by the adults. Restrictions and parental controls are necessary so children can only watch shows in a limited time that can help them to enhance their knowledge and skills and those that can instill values.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, hence, however, may, so, still, thus, while, for example, in addition, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 10.4138276553 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 24.0651302605 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2151.0 1615.20841683 133% => OK
No of words: 417.0 315.596192385 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15827338129 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66987583583 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508393285372 0.561755894193 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 654.3 506.74238477 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3957118205 49.4020404114 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.428571429 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8571428571 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2380952381 7.06120827912 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290587454891 0.244688304435 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.09586486211 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0813316562506 0.0667982634062 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177339202753 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0485537196525 0.056905535591 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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