TPO 34 independent writing- Educating children is a more difficult task today than it was in the past because they spend so much time on cell phones, online games, and social networking Web sites.
My parents and teachers usually complain about how difficult to educate children nowadays. They claim that students can be distracted easily by their cell phones, online games and social medias. Yet, I disagree with the statement that educating children today is more difficult than in the past.
First of all, children nowadays can access to a wide range of resources from cellphones which they can learn by themselves. Through using cellphones, children can search for the information they interested or related to classes to make learning effective. To take myself as an example, when I was a university student, my teachers encourage us to preview the textbooks before classes. Because it is hard to preview without professional opinions, I searched for the papers and analysis about topics through my cellphones. Due to the perfect preparations, I can absorb the knowledge without difficulty during classes. It is obviously helpful to my study.
Secondly, children can easily spend more time to discuss group assignments with classmates. Through doing group assignments, students can learn from different perspectives and also can discuss with students who are better on study. Under this circumstance, social networking websites become important tools. For example, my friends and I can discuss the projects through group chat and online meeting websites. We can arrange the discussion time and places with flexibility. Some students who live remote from campus can go home early and still can join projects when they are at home.
Admittedly, it is undeniable that playing online games can take away children much learning time. Nevertheless, in my opinion, the appearance of online games is not the problem causing difficulty to teach children. Online games are new entertainment for children today. Children in the past played different games to entertain themselves. To teach children how to balance their learning and leisure time is the main issue.
To sum up, taking into account both advantages from cellphones and social networking websites, we may safely draw the conclusion that educating children today would not cause more difficulties than in the past.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, for example, first of all, in my opinion, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1844.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 341.0 407.700716846 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40762463343 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82252846812 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554252199413 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.9392912153 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.8095238095 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2380952381 20.6045352989 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52380952381 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.247782191635 0.236089414692 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0840718957758 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071422388786 0.0737576698707 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164883659941 0.150856017488 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0883068069758 0.0645574589148 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.8 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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