With the advent of technology, the popularity of newspapers, magazines and hardcopies have taken a serious hit. The author’s claim that there is no need for newspapers has, I belive credibility to it considering the recent developments in the field of science.
Firstly, I believe that printing newspapers requires a tremendous amount of manual labour and raw materials. In addition to this, they have to be printed in copious amounts, delivered to each and every home each by a different set of people. Paper and ink are consumed in raft quantities and this adds the extra burden of taking proper care in disposing the same. This adds to the problem of deforestation and that is something that is of major concern to the people.
Secondly, major news companies and agencies have themselves moved on to digitalizing information in the form of apps and in websites. This development allows us to read news anytime, anywhere with ease. News can now be read on our own handheld devices. Not only do digitalized information provide us with this comfort of keeping up to date with news but it allows us to ease us of the norm of waiting a full day before reading a newspaper o keep us abreast of the daily occurences in the world. Earlier, even during natural calamities when people had to be warned or when a major incident had occured such as the assasination of a person in a high position, radios were used as a quick source to spread the same.
Thirdly, once information has been digitalized it will never get lost and remains forever in memory. This is not the case with newspapers and magazines as they have to be maintained physically in libraries and may degrade causing a loss of highly valuable data. A recent development in this field arrived with the high use of ebooks and pdfs. Amazon launched Kindle which is one such development that facilitates people to have the same feeling they get when they read a hardcopy or a book. With the launch of Kindle, majority of the avid readers of novels have migrated to ebooks and have done away with handling books and newspapers.
Although one cannot trade the authenticity that comes from reading from a newspaper or from a book, the comfort one gets from reading news on the go is a much needed and much welcomed trade off. Adding to this issue is the fact that a major industry depends on printing and distribution of newspapers. This industry also employs a huge number of personnel. This afffects a considerable size of population rendering them jobless should the need for newspapers decrease.
To conclude, technology has provided us with numerous solutions for commonplace problems. Replacing newspapers with phones and novels with ebooks is one such solution that has been embraced by a majority of the population. Some people claim that the feeling they get from reading something out of a physical entity or the smell of a book newly bought is not comparable to reading out of a phone. This claim is partially true but in the long run environmental effects and comfort have to be kept in mind while making a decision regarding the need of newspapers.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, while, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.5418719212 180% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 6.10837438424 131% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 8.36945812808 287% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 5.94088669951 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 39.0 20.9802955665 186% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 31.9359605911 272% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 5.75862068966 260% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2594.0 1207.87684729 215% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 539.0 242.827586207 222% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81261595547 5.00649968141 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 3.92707691288 123% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77339491587 2.71678728327 102% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 139.433497537 194% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.500927643785 0.580463131201 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 824.4 379.143842365 217% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.6157635468 195% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 12.6551724138 190% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8379112531 50.4703680194 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.083333333 104.977214359 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4583333333 20.9669160288 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.91666666667 7.25397266985 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.12807881773 145% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 6.9802955665 186% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 2.91625615764 240% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0892445833352 0.242375264174 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0263871494426 0.0925447433944 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452020326907 0.071462118173 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0566681784967 0.151781067708 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0407121279112 0.0609392437508 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 12.6369458128 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.1260098522 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.9458128079 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 11.5310837438 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32886699507 101% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 55.0591133005 231% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 80.5 Out of 90
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