Is television a form of entertainment or information? Discuss your views.
Television was one of the most important inventions of 20th century. Some people say that this is an entertainment source only, while others argue that it is also an information source and contribute a lot to educate people about different cultures, locations and national and international events. In my opinion, I believe that television not only provides people with entertainment but also acts as source of information.
To begin with, proponents of TV as an educational source put forward many evidences to support their venture point. First and foremost, there are many channels which help people to acquaint themselves with wild life, different culture and locations. For instance, Discovery channel telecast various programs and documentaries making people aware of culture of different countries, diversity of wild life and local cuisines of different locations. Furthermore, many foreign channels such as BBC give people chance to improve their English speaking skills which is considered as a global language. Besides this, news channels serve the purpose of news provider and make people aware of domestic and international happenings.
In spite of above mentioned evidences, many people still consider TV as a source of entertainment only. These people argue that majority of viewers spent hours of their daily routine sitting in front of TV watching TV serials, movies, music videos and other entertainment programs and hardly interested to switch informational channels. To exemplify, children do not prefer to watch news and stick to television to watch cartoons and movies. Moreover, most of the people watch television programs for the sake of entertainment and to get relaxed and this is the another argument placed by this category of groups.
To conclude, it is clear that while TV is a main source of entertainment, it does not mean that it does not bring information for its viewers. Television acts as an educational source in terms of teaching people about different customs and traditions, foreign languages and national and international news around the world.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, if, moreover, so, still, while, for instance, such as, in my opinion, in spite of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.5418719212 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 6.10837438424 0% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 8.36945812808 227% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 20.9802955665 105% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 31.9359605911 135% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.75862068966 191% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1774.0 1207.87684729 147% => OK
No of words: 327.0 242.827586207 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4250764526 5.00649968141 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 3.92707691288 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99169796477 2.71678728327 110% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 139.433497537 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538226299694 0.580463131201 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 545.4 379.143842365 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4795873563 50.4703680194 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.714285714 104.977214359 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3571428571 20.9669160288 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.71428571429 7.25397266985 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115249270989 0.242375264174 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0462898316893 0.0925447433944 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0388062072843 0.071462118173 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0834985864386 0.151781067708 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.055111785565 0.0609392437508 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 12.6369458128 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.1260098522 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.9458128079 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 11.5310837438 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.32886699507 104% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 55.0591133005 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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