Some people believe that children can learn effectively by watching TV and they should be encouraged to watch TV both home and at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree

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Some people believe that children can learn effectively by watching TV and they should be encouraged to watch TV both home and at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree

Watching TV is considered an effective wayhas been recognized as an effective method of learning because audio and visual information can attract children’s attention. Even though there are many educative TV programs, I would argue that increasing screen time could be a bad idea.

Learning by watching TV is more likely to be distractive than effective. There are many fun cartoons and movies that are just click away on the remote. Without proper scrutiny from adults, children would most likely switch to “Cartoon World” instead of studying. Moreover, the development of brain requires interactive activities. Unlike reading, watching TV requires far less concentration. A child could end up with less attention span if he or she watches too much TV.

Another problem is that watching TV will influence children’s ability to communicate. In modern days, collaboration and communication is an effective way of learning. Schools often have projects and presentations which requires team work. Sitting in front of a TV alone provides no training in communication skills. A child who does not know how to learn from peers would find it difficult to be successful academically.A child who sits infront of a TV for hours may become unsocialable and unwilling to express his or her views to thers.

On the other hand, watching TV can be beneficial since it could expand a child’s knowledgeI understand that watching TV can expose children to a world of knowledge. TV programs usually provide a wide selection of subjects which are not often taught in every schools. Some programs feature scientists from the most renowned institutions. For example, NASA has an educative program on space travelling. The TV show debunks myth about living in space. These programs are fun to watch, and easy to understand even for a kid. They supplement what children learn from schools.

In conclusion, I believe that TV shows should not be the main source of learning, however, they could be excellent supplement materials for school education.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 426, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: A
...difficult to be successful academically.A child who sits infront of a TV for hour...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, moreover, so, for example, in conclusion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1749.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 327.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34862385321 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09997633332 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620795107034 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 506.74238477 101% => 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: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
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: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.3825762963 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.2857142857 106.682146367 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5714285714 20.7667163134 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 7.06120827912 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355138226955 0.244688304435 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0988894645189 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819651495769 0.0667982634062 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203072309364 0.151304729494 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0308522241535 0.056905535591 54% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 50.2224549098 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.45 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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