Modern communications mean that it's no longer necessary to write letters. 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.
It is widely believed that nowadays, writing letters has become obsolete due to the advancement of modern communications. I am totally against this idea; this essay will support my opinion with relevant examples.
We must acknowledge that majority of people particularly the younger and some old generations prefer using contemporary communications such as email, skype and so on for writing letters to working with pens and pencils. That is to say, it is extremely convenient, quick and effective. To illustrate, the receipient can receive letter in no time which means by clicking a button, you ...
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Sentence: To illustrate, the receipient can receive letter in no time which means by clicking a button, you are able to send any amount of messages as you can.
Error: receipient Suggestion: recipient
flaws:
better to use less pronouns for the subject of sentences.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 8.0 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 349 350
No. of Characters: 1769 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.322 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.069 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.95 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 105 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.812 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.777 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.292 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.539 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Thank you sir. Suggestions
Thank you sir. Suggestions noted sir.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 489, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...re working in the office, travelling on a overcrowded train or having chat with a...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, moreover, so, thus, for instance, in addition, no doubt, of course, such as, as a result, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1823.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 349.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22349570201 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05113332007 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630372492837 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 5.43587174349 294% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.9432990254 49.4020404114 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.9375 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8125 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.625 7.06120827912 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154539987865 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0425166418 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354302656756 0.0667982634062 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0753875586621 0.151304729494 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460763412952 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => 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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