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 opinion as to the usefulness of television as an educational tool
The extensive application of television for academic purposes has long been debated all over the world. While there are people who argue in favor of the merits, some firmly believe that it has been hackneyed and not feasible for educational purposes. However, we will discuss both views here.
The proponents in favor of television as an effective tool point out to the fact that an immense number of programs are being telecasted to aid pupils in their studies and career decision. In many countries, contents are deliberately being designed for learning purposes. For instance, a handful of channels in India, relay live programs for students to decide on their further education, where an expert would be available to answer their queries. Furthermore, science channels contribute profoundly in enhancing children's knowledge as they showcase facts and scientific innovations in a interesting way.
Conversely, the argument being put forth by the opponents is that the business need for channels is to captivate masses' attention and gain huge profits. Therefore, their focus cannot be primarily on students. As a result, more shows in the peak hours are non-academic, whereas educational programs are being aired during after hours. It is also being said that the potency of those shows are certainly not quantifiable. For example, one cannot test the amount of information gained by a student after watching a science show, whereas, knowledge gained from books could be easily evaluated by conducting exams. For this reason, television proves to be unsuccessful in aiding learning.
On recapitulating all the points, although it appears that TV has some appreciable number of shows to support learning, there is no viable way to quantify its outcomes. Also, the merits of traditional learning methods like books, lectures and other methods outweigh those of television. Hence, TV proves to be an inefficient tool for learning.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 588, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a interesting way" with adverb for "interesting"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...owcase facts and scientific innovations in a interesting way. Conversely, the argument being put ...
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Line 3, column 591, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ase facts and scientific innovations in a interesting way. Conversely, the arg...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, therefore, whereas, while, for example, for instance, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1634.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 305.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35737704918 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89269901744 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613114754098 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 503.1 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4574152607 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.125 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0625 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8125 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.118623022425 0.244688304435 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0412671608526 0.084324248473 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0435230886773 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0812024288366 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502146090733 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.5 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => 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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