As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
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.
It is known that technology has been improved since the twentieth century and plays a crucial role in our daily lives. The advent of the Internet, automobiles and computers are some examples of how technological improvements constantly facilitate our routine. As a result, we utilize them for our convenience. However, this efficiency will not abate human’s capacity of being creative and solving problems, in other words, critical thinking. The statement asserts that the reliance on technology will abate human’s critical thinking. I disagree with the given statement for the reasons I will explore in the following paragraphs.
All technological advances and devices are made, maintained and improved by humans. Therefore, how these improvements could impair human’s ability to think by themselves? A wide range of skills and reasoning is necessary to create and develop new technology. Moreover, even more reasoning is necessary to solve new problems and challenges created by technological advances. Nowadays computers facilitate our lives in ineffable ways but at past times it was just a huge machine used to store information. Over time, the wide access to computers led to an urgent necessity to link them through a global network, that is how the Internet came about. I t was necessary high level of study and research to develop it. Now we cannot imagine our lives without the ubiquitous access to the Internet. Therefore, solutions to new challenges that appear as a result of technological advances, require innovative measures and high critical thinking.
Furthermore, technology, including the Internet, is widely available and provides comprehensive and prompt access to information that, otherwise, was not. Exchanging information at real time and staying connected with each other enhance our thinking and communication skills. There is no distance to the Internet, the possibility to communicate with people around the world can generate, disseminate and share knowledge, which improves our reasoning and ability to think, link and make connections of broad conceptual ideas.
Although some devices, for example calculators, may diminish our ability to think and reason quickly, it is just because we are used to. These devices will not impair our ability to think, they just make us to feel comfortable and secure using them. Therefore, I do not consider it as having relevant impact in our thinking ability because it helps to solve trivial mathematical problems.
Thus, it gives us additional time to engage more efficiently in tasks that demand complex thinking and reasoning.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, for example, as a result, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2218.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 404.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4900990099 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0203821874 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564356435644 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 715.5 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.6199924489 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.818181818 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3636363636 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68181818182 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214532851496 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643291242775 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613200101555 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114262862453 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382499428033 0.0667264976115 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 48.8420337079 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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