Modern communications mean that it’s no longer necessary to write letters.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

In today's scenario, many people believe that writing letters is no more required and that latest technology has overpowered it. I totally agree with the above statement.

In my viewpoint, recent developments in communication no longer imposes a need for people to communicate through letters. Earlier, letter writing was the only medium for them to contact their near and dear ones. However, this has been drastically overtaken by advanced modes of communication like gadgets, computers etc. Apparently, these are considered more reliable, safe and quickest means to communicate. In a matter of few minutes, we can contact anyone with our handy and convenient mobile phone. Another feather in the cap is the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter which has brought people together globally. On the other hand, if we talk about letters it takes a couple of days to reach the recipient. Not only people are suspicious about its delivery but also about the secrecy of information. From cost perspective also, e-communication saves a lot of paper which will affect the economy as well.

On the contrary, with a vast number of ageing population, most of which are not tech savvy, writing letters is the only option left. This group of elderly people find it more easy to express their thoughts on paper. Moreover, due to health issues like weak eye sight etc they are unable to sit for prolonged hours in front of the computer.

To recapitulate, albeit modern means of communication are a boon for the society yet it would be unfair to conclude that letter writing is no more required. Total dependency on the former would only limit ourselves and make us less self reliant.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 258, Rule ID: EYE_BROW[1]
Message: This word is usually spelt together: 'eyesight'.
Suggestion: eyesight
...oreover, due to health issues like weak eye sight etc they are unable to sit for prolonge...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, however, if, moreover, so, well, in my view, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 280.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75939027575 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.65 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.0069101394 49.4020404114 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.375 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.375 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182835446999 0.244688304435 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0564282984866 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618963667271 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111585563116 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350168514904 0.056905535591 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.0946893788 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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