Some people believe that students should be taught international news as a subject at school. Others feel that this would be a waste of valuable school time. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
The need to adopt the best practices in the communication and information industry cannot be overemphasized, hence, some individuals think foreign news should be a subject in students' curriculum. However, some argue this will only amount to wasting the precious time needed to focus on other subjects. In this essay, I will discuss both views in-depth and give my opinion.
On the one hand, proponents of students learning international news believe this would help them familiarize themselves with how they run their operations. No doubt the likes of Cable News Network and British Broadcasting Commission who have been in the game for decades are the most viewed channels, because of their perceived reliability. If students are taught the rudiments of how they built such credibility over the years, this can be applied to local news channels to ensure that the right practices are employed in newsgathering, reporting, and journalism.
On the other hand, those against this idea think it is not necessary. They suggest valuable time be spent on student’s majors, such as mathematics, sciences, and technology, rather than learning information on global news as this may cause distraction. For instance, a study conducted by the National Education Board of Nigeria found that majority of the students who partook in elective courses had their core subjects score reduced by 25%. Thus, emphasis should be placed on what is needed by the students. Besides, there are students who would benefit from this subject especially those studying mass communication and journalism.
In conclusion, although the argument whether or not students should learn international news can be seen as a waste of valuable time, it is apparently beneficial to those whose core courses revolve around it and I agree.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, besides, hence, however, if, may, so, thus, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32517482517 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9489706167 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608391608392 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 506.74238477 90% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => 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: 56.8102959174 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.916666667 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0833333333 7.06120827912 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380709747252 0.244688304435 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129241388352 0.084324248473 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575952799092 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225659243819 0.151304729494 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606667471192 0.056905535591 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => 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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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...th views in-depth and give my opinion. On the one hand, proponents of students ...
^^^
Line 7, column 38, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
... In conclusion, although the argument whether or not students should learn international new...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, besides, hence, however, if, may, so, thus, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32517482517 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9489706167 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608391608392 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 506.74238477 90% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => 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: 56.8102959174 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.916666667 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0833333333 7.06120827912 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380709747252 0.244688304435 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129241388352 0.084324248473 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575952799092 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225659243819 0.151304729494 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606667471192 0.056905535591 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => 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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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.