Some people say that television is a very useful tool when it comes to education. Others argue that television is a much overused, ineffective teacher. Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion as to the usefulness of television as an educational tool.
There is little room for doubt that television has developed to a stage where millions of people cannot imagine their lives without. However, impact of this addiction is a subject of intense debate when usage of television is linked to education. Some people deem influence of TV as facilitator of education while others believe that usage television might bring no positive influences for learning at all.
On one hand, while doing justice to the merits of using TV on educational purposes, its unique benefits cannot be given nelson’s eye. To start with, TV provides a learner with up-to-date and prompt data. To explain, news on television are instantaneously updated which keep the person aware of every minute happenings, discoveries and inventions. Secondly, a learner’s outlook is broadened by watching documentaries and movies. Consequently, television watchers are educated since they have opportunity to observe the places they have never been to.
On paradoxical side, though TV offers mankind countless benefits, too much exposure to those programs has its shortcomings. The reason for this drawback might be rooted in the fact that every single show broadcasts or programs are created for the audience, causing restraints to creative abilities of people. In other words, people spend their massive time on television and avoid involving in any constructive work. Furthermore, having great obsession for TV shows and sitting in front of leads to laziness and people are accustomed to Western culture since they control large sectors of media.
In the light of these facts, one can conclude that television can have both bonus and negative influences. Television can be absolutely beneficial on condition that it is not used to excess. Owing to wide availability of data on television concerning various subjects one can have wider perspective and increase his knowledge exponentially.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, furthermore, however, look, second, secondly, so, while, in other words, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1621.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45791245791 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01057928243 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.656565656566 0.561755894193 117% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.5217192384 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.066666667 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 7.06120827912 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.214928662978 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0707650038489 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552034326857 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126637962776 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510635317141 0.056905535591 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => 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: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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.