People say that reading for pleasure helps people to develop imagination and better language skills than watch TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Reading books is preferred by many people rather than watching TV because it improves our imagination and language skills. Despite its significance, I am convinced that TV is a better channel for everyone to obtain knowledge and mental skills.
On the one hand, is it important to acknowledge the positive aspect of reading for pleasure. This activity not only helps people to relax but make their brain perform a number of exercise relating to concentration and memory. By scanning for necessary details and skimming for main ideas, readers are more likely to remember the information better and indeed in a longer time. Moreover, the more books they finish, the more their horizon can be widened. For example, journals of Biology provide explanations of several natural processes, while English books contain tips and tricks to prepare for language examinations. For IELTS trainees, they usually read sample essays or newspaper articles to learn topic-based collocations and sentence patterns, which are applied to enhance their writing.
On the other hand, watching TV plays a more significant role in imagination and language development of each individual, regardless of age. Firstly, TV programs attract young audience with catching melodies or visual motions, leaving more impression in their brain than printed words do. When it comes to children learning a foreign language, for instance, they learn letters in the alphabet by funny songs and pictures of animals. Secondly, adults working for multinational companies can improve their language skills through practical communicative lessons. This way, they get exposed to the way native speakers pronounce certain words precisely and have more motivation to study. Unlike those in books, such interactive lessons encourage learners to speak and listen constantly and actively, making them process further in terms of fluency.
In conclusion, reading books does bring people many benefits. However, watching TV lends more support for everyone to improve their language skills and become more imaginative.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1765.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 316.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58544303797 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79289677436 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.645569620253 0.561755894193 115% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.1423705106 49.4020404114 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.3125 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.75 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.67935871743 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.27089385708 0.244688304435 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0852114878831 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0689050794638 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184344645295 0.151304729494 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0515111785587 0.056905535591 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.4159519038 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.98 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: 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.