The image (photographs and films) is becoming more powerful in communicating information than the written word. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Written words have traditionally been regarded as the most critical tool for the conveyance of ideas and information among people. Nonetheless, I believe that this role has been overtaken by the prevalence of images in this day and age.
To begin with, the growing dominance in communication of the image results from its attention-grabbing nature. In fact, it is scientifically evident that people find it more effortlessly to digest information from visual than textual description. For example, film or TV series adaptations such as The Twilight Saga or Game of Thrones have attracted an even wi...
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Score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 298 350
No. of Characters: 1566 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.155 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.255 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.151 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.867 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.596 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.512 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.025 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5