Reading books keeps a person’s mind active, whereas watching films and television is passive and does not require a person to use their imagination.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Reading and watching films and television are some of the many activities people engage in for the purpose of entertainment. Both activities can inspire the imagination, yet in my opinion, reading stimulates the imagination much more than watching films and television.
Reading stimulates the mind as the reader needs to visualize what is described in a book. However, this is not always the case when watching a film or television because all the characters, situations and places are presented in detail for the viewer, complete with sound and special effects. In this sense, watching films is passive as very little is left to a person’s imagination. This is probably why people often choose to watch television or a film when they are tired or want to relax, as this activity does not require the mental effort that is necessary when reading.
Furthermore, reading is a process that can be controlled by each individual. Each person is free to decide when and at what speed to read, and to stop at any time to reflect on what they have just read. In addition, it usually takes a number of days or weeks to read a book, whereas films are usually over in two hours. Thus, the reader is engaged with a book for a much longer period of time and it can become a larger part of their life than a film.
In summary, films and television often stimulate the viewer’s thoughts and feelings in a way that books cannot, yet overall, reading is a more active process that exercises the mind and encourages a stronger sense of imagination.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, so, thus, whereas, in addition, in summary, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1283.0 1615.20841683 79% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78731343284 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76790984415 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 176.041082164 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541044776119 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 506.74238477 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9079696263 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.636363636 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3636363636 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.54545454545 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.324336570981 0.244688304435 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12430570883 0.084324248473 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526352029452 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186869354623 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0588386006293 0.056905535591 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 78.4519038076 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.