Compare the advantages and disadvantages of three of the following as media for
communicating information. State which you consider to be the most effective.
• comics
• books
• radio
• television
• film
• theatre
This essay will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of three different media, namely books,
radio and television. I will argue that television is the most powerful of these three media,
in terms of its ability to communicate information.
The main advantage of books is that they are usually considered to be reliable sources of
information. People tend to refer to books when they want to research a subject in depth,
and for this reason they continue to play an important role in education. On the other hand,
books quickly go out of date, and therefore they are not the best medium for
communicating news stories.
Radio is a much more effective medium than books for the communication of up-to-date
information. We can listen to news broadcasts about events as they happen, and a key
benefit of radio is that we can listen to it while doing other activities, such as driving or
working. The main drawback of radio, when compared to books or television, is that there
is no visual element; we cannot see what the broadcaster is describing.
In my opinion, television is the most dynamic of these three media because it brings us
closer to reality than a book or radio programme ever can. For example, we can watch
events as they take place on the other side of the world, or we can see the body language
of a politician who is being interviewed. The disadvantages of television are that
programmes tend to be short and interrupted by advertisements, meaning that information
is presented in limited depth.
In conclusion, while books and radio broadcasts are excellent communication tools, I
believe the television can have an even greater impact on the viewer.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1424.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 284.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01408450704 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91498260485 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542253521127 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 24.0808822282 49.4020404114 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 118.666666667 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.91666666667 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 21.0 4.38176352705 479% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23245634535 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0964538447784 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0638396616046 0.0667982634062 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0684695664026 0.151304729494 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0625683969916 0.056905535591 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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