Nowadays, a large amount of advertising is aimed at children. Some people think this can have negative effects on children and should be banned. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Currently, advertisements have become an ever-increasing widespread phenomenon, and many of them target at children and youngsters. Consequently, the critics of them contend that a complete prohibition against children-oriented advertising is a must for its detrimental influence on children. Personally, I oppose the necessity of this kind of prohibition despite those undeniable drawbacks.
Admittedly, advertisements directed at children have become a social problem for the following two reasons. Initially, an elaborate advertisement is more likely to tempt children to make a purchase because they lack the ability to distinguish misleading or false information included in those advertisements. A classic example is that juveniles, as prospective consumers, are normally not cautious enough about the messages delivered by their favourite cartoon characters, and if a character describes a brand as the most nutritious food in his world, it is almost impossible for children to realize that the mentioned world refers to the world in the animation rather than the real world we live in. Another disadvantage of children-oriented marketing is the higher possibility of irrational buying behaviour. For example, however expensive a toy is, with an attractive advertisement, children would beg their parents for it regardless of the price even if they have already had a variety of similar toys for lack of awareness of the value of money.
However, the main weakness of a total banning is that they neglect the benefits brought by the advertisements and the positive effects of a well-developed censorship system. In terms of the advantages, it is evident that advertisements, no matter on adults or children, provide us with more information about products, and we would have fewer choices without the assistance of advertising. Additionally, advertising directed at children has provided numerous positions, which means a complete banning would raise the unemployment rate and lead to many social problems, including famine and poverty. On the other hands, the government can tackle this concern with a rigorous censorship system. For example, if every advertisement needs the authorization to exclude misleading or false information, insufficient critical thinking for adolescents could not do more damage to them.
On balance, although children-oriented marketing undermines consumers’ interests to some extent, alternative methods rather than the entire prohibition should be applied to address those problems.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, if, so, well, for example, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2168.0 1615.20841683 134% => OK
No of words: 373.0 315.596192385 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.81233243968 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.51833139143 2.80592935109 125% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600536193029 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 683.1 506.74238477 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => 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: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.8199539575 49.4020404114 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.857142857 106.682146367 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6428571429 20.7667163134 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235075964826 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0821224115075 0.084324248473 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0413437371239 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145907731778 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0182633576606 0.056905535591 32% => 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: 19.3 13.0946893788 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.17 50.2224549098 56% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.3001002004 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.71 12.4159519038 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.22 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 78.4519038076 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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