School children are becoming far too dependent on computers. This is having an alarming effect on reading and writing skills. Teachers need to avoid using computers in the classroom at all costs and go back to teaching basic study skills.
Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Some people contend that due to computer use in classrooms basic study skills ‘’reading and writing” would be affected. Therefore computer use in classrooms should be avoided. However, others dissent from this contention.
Admittedly, through computers students learn with pleasure and with an attitude of being in control. This is so because they do not feel intimidated and under pressure as when a teacher is in control. Therefore they tend to devote all their attention and might go an extra mile to learn further of what they learn. This is positive for learning as it promotes creativity.
In spite of the above argument, we cannot deny that a computer is programmed to an error free work. Microsoft word exemplifies this precisely. In Microsoft word the computer does the writing legibly. This however deters a student from improving their writing skills. Moreover, it automatically corrects grammatical errors. This elucidates that students ` grammatical accuracy is bound not to be developed. Hence negatively affects reading skills.
In addition, computers limits students from extensively performing researches. Because students simply resorts to the internet for materials. Websites in particular provides a handful resources. Therefore students need not to look further to acquire knowledge. Sites such as Wikipedia acts as a source of books. Owing to this, books are less likely to be used hence laziness is promoted.
In conclusion, it is clear that computers gives students an avenue of pleasure and confidence while learning. But I assert that computer use in classrooms have a negative impact on writing and reading skills. Therefore it should not be allowed in classrooms.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
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Suggestion: Therefore,
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Suggestion: Hence,
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
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Message: Did you mean 'look'?
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'moreover', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'in particular', 'such as', 'in spite of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.254071661238 0.247107183377 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.185667752443 0.155533422707 119% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0553745928339 0.0946595960268 58% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0586319218241 0.0501214627716 117% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0358306188925 0.0437548338989 82% => OK
Prepositions: 0.133550488599 0.122226691241 109% => OK
Participles: 0.0521172638436 0.0403226058552 129% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.02533740752 2.80594681477 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0325732899023 0.0326793684256 100% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0749185667752 0.0861772015684 87% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0162866449511 0.021408717616 76% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00651465798046 0.011925033212 55% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1722.0 1933.35771543 89% => OK
No of words: 265.0 316.048096192 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.49811320755 6.12580529183 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.20517956788 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.445283018868 0.374742101984 119% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.377358490566 0.28420135186 133% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.28679245283 0.203846283523 141% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.17358490566 0.137316102897 126% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02533740752 2.80594681477 108% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.037074148 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.596226415094 0.56093040696 106% => OK
Word variations: 62.9522742031 60.7387585426 104% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0891783567 143% => OK
Sentence length: 11.5217391304 20.7743622355 55% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.7491901611 49.517814964 52% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.8695652174 127.492653851 59% => OK
Words per sentence: 11.5217391304 20.7743622355 55% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.608695652174 0.814263465372 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.99599198397 150% => OK
Readability: 49.257588187 49.1944974215 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.56976744186 1.69124875643 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308927697935 0.332605444948 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0625019619444 0.102741220458 61% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0786066599273 0.0668466124924 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.423517126236 0.534860350844 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.14665306237 0.148594505496 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0853341520566 0.134430193775 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0524204489938 0.0742795772207 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.148159516154 0.324371583561 46% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0443246863987 0.0638462369009 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177966262473 0.228012699653 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0204092875928 0.058150111329 35% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.68436873747 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 3.41683366733 322% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 1.9629258517 204% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 10.4468937876 134% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.