New stories on TV and in newspaper are very often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words.
What is your opinions about this ?
Photographs have become an integral part of news stories. Some people believe that the pictorial presentation of news is more effective than textual pesentation. I completely agree with the statement and in this essay, I will support my view with valid arguments and examples.
There is no doubt that pictures attract the attention of the audience. They also give a basic understanding of the news story and thus make it easy for the reader to figure out which stories are worth their attention. In this age of information explosion, we are bombarded with news stories. We receive updates every second and it is impossible to read or watch all of the stories that we come across. Pictures make it easy to filter out stories we are not interested in.
What’s more, according to a survey conducted by the media association, 70% of readers are more likely to read a news story accompanied by an image. To illustrate, I am a great fan of Amitabh Bachchan. Whenever I see him on screen or in a newspaper, I become more curious to read or watch the whole news story. It is his photo that grabs my attention. Furthermore, by adding more pictures to news articles, news editors can attract the attention of children as well. For example, there is a particular section in Sunday’s newspaper which highlights children specific topics and contains more graphics than text material. That colorful page attracts my son the most and, as a result, he goes through that entire section without fail. Thus it is evident that if there is no picture the media may lose the attention of a particular group of audience.
To sum up, I believe that including pictures in news can play a pivotal role in gaining / attracting reader’s attention to a particular topic. Pictures can also tell a story more vividly and make comprehension easier.
It is true that more and more photos and video are attached to the news on TV and newspapers. In my opinion, photographs are a more efficient channel in transmitting information than texts.
Firstly, pictures are more eye-catching than words. According to scientific researches by Oxford University, people are normally more easily attracted more by motions, sounds and colours. Nowadays, people are living in a hectic life. Photos in the news can easily catch the readers’ attention and add a vivid description to the news. In turn, the new is more entertaining and attract more readers. The prevalence of news company will probably increase and hence their profits.
Secondly, photos increase the accreditation of the news. Most readers or audiences believe that a picture says more than a thousand words. In the past, there were only text in the newspaper and the readers my sometimes query if the news is really real or just imagination from the reporters. But now, when the news is supported by a picture which greatly increases the trustfulness from the public. For example, there were a few reports on the appearance of South Africa white tigers in South Africa which officially declared as an extinct species by the South Africa Fish and Wildlife Service. The authority doubts about the accuracy of the reports. But now, people are reporting to the officials and newspaper with the support of photos and hence, greatly increase the credibility.
In sum, photographs are more effective than words in terms of conveying messages as it increases attention from the audience and credibility of the news.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, really, second, secondly, so, for example, in my opinion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 7.0 24.0651302605 29% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1358.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 264.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14393939394 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84141409653 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 176.041082164 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534090909091 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 506.74238477 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2135567679 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.875 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5 20.7667163134 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 7.06120827912 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201066100477 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0737865892231 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0652476651875 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126181420796 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0275405369323 0.056905535591 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.0946893788 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 9.78957915832 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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