New technologies have changed the way children spend their free time. Do advantages of this outweigh disadvantages?
It is true that with the advent of new technologies, the way children spend their free time has been changed. While this has several drawbacks, I believe that overall the advantages are more significant.
On the one hand, this trend has a number of negative effects. Firstly, spending free time on new technologies encourages a sedentary lifestyle. Because technology is addictive, children tend to keep their eyes glued to screens for hours on end instead of doing physical exercises. As a result, youngsters are becoming lazier and are more likely to be caught obesity. Besides, new technologies cause some other health problems. High exposure to technologies certainly results in headaches, eye strain and stressed feelings. For example, I have been short-sighted since I was 7 years old because I spent too much time watching TV instead of taking part in outdoor activities.
Despite the disadvantages mentioned above, I believe that the development of technologies has positive effects on the way children spend their free time. Firstly, new technologies provide an endless stream of entertainment to teenagers. They can watch movies, surf the Internet, play games or listen to music in their free time. In contrast, without technologies, youngsters have a limited range of leisure activities such as doing physical exercises, reading books and taking part in outdoor activities. Secondly, technologies help adolescents to widen their knowledge. They can take advantage of spare time to learn new things by taking an online course. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many universities in the world such as Oxford, Cambridge allow accessing a huge source of material freely, so students can make use of their leisure time to broaden their mind.
In conclusion, although this trend has some negative effects, I believe that the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1591.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.375 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00627653317 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597972972973 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.8226405855 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5882352941 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4117647059 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.70588235294 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.463047939107 0.244688304435 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128679493238 0.084324248473 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0995471431599 0.0667982634062 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260864874762 0.151304729494 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0845476691059 0.056905535591 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
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: 13.63 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => 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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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.