In a recent few decades, we have witnessed the dramatic development of information technology and the way of communication has also been drastically changed. Given this situation, some people would think that it is no longer necessary for us to write letters. Generally, I agree with this idea; we can exchange our messages by utilizing a variety of devices and the opportunity to use fountain pens has been decreased. However, I suppose that letters are still necessary in some cases. In the following analysis, I would like to reason and provide some evidence to support my position.
Nowadays, smartphone and computers have become crucial devices for our daily life. I suppose that many people think that they would not be able to survive without them. Recently, we can communicate with each other by using these devices, and many people are connected through social networking service (SNS). For instance, I can keep in touch with friends living in foreign countries and I enjoy sending birthday wishes to them by using Facebook. On the other hand, because it takes a long time for us to communicate via letters, I do not write a letter for a decade. Considering this, I think that letters do not play an important role in today’s society.
However, I strongly believe that letters will not (and should not) disappear. The main reason is that not all people can utilize the abovementioned devices. For example, my grandfather, who is a kind of “technophobia”, does not like to use a smartphone and he often writes letters to my family. I have to admit that he is outdated; however, I strongly believe that we should not deprive these people of the communication tool. In addition, a research implemented in Japan has shown that about half of elderly people do not understand how to use the Internet. This fact implicates that it is impossible for us to eradicate letters. This is why I would like to state that letters are still necessary.
In a nutshell, the way of communication has changed and letters are not necessary especially for the young generation. However, we should not forget that some people are really poor at using new technology. I hope that societies are tolerant to these people.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, really, so, still, for example, for instance, i suppose, i think, in addition, kind of, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 56.0 24.0651302605 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1850.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 374.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94652406417 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01567297767 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508021390374 0.561755894193 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 600.3 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 5.43587174349 331% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.7555144567 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.0952380952 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8095238095 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61904761905 7.06120827912 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175077441876 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050848357255 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0554875624759 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108665915352 0.151304729494 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0436434616826 0.056905535591 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => 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: 11.13 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => 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: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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