“As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.”
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Today technology is an indispensable part of our lives. We use technology in every single thing we do. To a certain extent I disagree with the statement because by using technology, people can save time and work more efficiently.
Technology doesn’t deteriorate the ability of humans to think as technology is built by man himself. Using technology, people can save time doing their work. Today calculators have made our lives very easy because we can do long calculations within seconds. For example if a shopkeeper does the calculations by hand instead of using a calculator, it would take a lot of time and it would waste other people’s time who are standing in the queue. If the shopkeeper uses a calculator, calculations would be done faster and more accurately. The shopkeeper can use the saved time in thinking how he can earn more profit instead of wasting time doing calculations by hand. But if you are a mathematics professor you should definitely know how to do calculations by hand as you need to teach the students to do basic calculations.
Technology helps people with their work and make our lives much easier. If you are a Computer Engineer it takes a lot of time to write the code for an application. But if a part of the code is available on the internet, it would help the coder write the code and the application would be completed in less time. This would not deteriorate the ability of the computer engineer to think because he would have to know how to use the code in his application and edit the code according to his requirement. Of course if he blindly copies the code, the code would not run as expected. So if we use technology wisely, it would not deteriorate our thinking but it would help us in our work and make our work more efficient.
Nowadays students use technology for visual learning which helps them in learning the concepts easily. There is so much material available on the internet that the students can use for learning. This doesn’t mean that they cannot think for themselves. For example if in an assignment, a student is unable to understand a question, he can search it on the internet and with the internet’s help understand the answer. But if the student copies the entire assignment from the internet, it would definitely harm the student as he would not learn anything from the assignment.
Today there are so many technological tools available for our use. If we these tools sensibly it would help us to work more efficiently and we can complete our work in less time.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, second, so, for example, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2118.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 443.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78103837472 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90640272517 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 215.323595506 83% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.401805869074 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 680.4 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3791063833 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.0869565217 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2608695652 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.86956521739 5.21951772744 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171872399573 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0612907946698 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.051250249271 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103496951164 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0334903168023 0.0667264976115 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 100.480337079 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.