Some people think that newspapers are the best way to learn news. However, others believe that they can learn news better through other media. Discuss both views and give your opinion
Keeping oneself updated is one of people’s basic needs. Some claim that they can obtain information on current affairs best by means of newspapers. However, I believe that others media such as the television, the radio and the Internet are far more effective as regards news gathering.
On the one hand, newspapers would be the most reasonable choice for people of older generations. These senior citizens, I suppose, prefer this medium because of its familiarity. In fact, for many of those aged between 40 and 60, reading a newspaper in the morning has been a vital part of their life. A telling example is my grandfather, who is 65 years old now, who always starts his day with some news in the paper. Another reason which accounts for the belief that newspapers are better than any other methods of updating the news is the limits of Internet connections in certain areas. There are still many places in the world where Internet access is at exorbitant prices. The case in point is countries Africa, in which many people are still struggling with provisioning themselves with daily necessities, not to mention the luxury of the Internet. For them, an occasional newspaper would be more than enough.
Having said that, technology has come a long way in news reporting, thereby making newspapers obsolete. There are other ways that people can keep themselves up to date quickly and comfortably, such as the TV, the radio and the Internet. Getting news from television has long been the norm for many people. The public spend quite a lot of time watching TV or listen to the radio on a daily basis, and news coverage is incorporated in these programs, so they can easily be informed of what is happening. Besides, there has been a sharp increase in the number of Internet users., most of whom are young and their daily activities primarily revolve around technology and the Internet. For these digital natives, there is no point in putting away their smartphones or tablets to pick up a newspaper to get the news. With the devices, it is much more convenient and they can enjoy reading the news wherever they are, either on the move or in the comfort of their air-conditioned room. Finally, compared to reading a newspaper, more high-tech equipment provides more colorful and eye-catching, realistic-looking images rather than just dull black-and-white ones in the traditional one. Therefore, these methods of receiving the news are much preferable.
In conclusion, there are certainly some benefits of the old-fashioned newspaper, I am of the opinion that the alternative media can provide a more exciting and pleasant way to attain the news.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, however, if, look, so, still, therefore, as regards, i suppose, in conclusion, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 13.1623246493 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2208.0 1615.20841683 137% => OK
No of words: 444.0 315.596192385 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97297297297 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8384026322 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 176.041082164 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547297297297 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 690.3 506.74238477 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7342076835 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.142857143 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38095238095 7.06120827912 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.247962790905 0.244688304435 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0711012594046 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0555398683124 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169631536823 0.151304729494 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0379091525652 0.056905535591 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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