Some people believe that electronic calculators should not be allowed in school until after the pupils have mastered mental arithmetic Others believe that calculators save pupils time especially with complicated calculations Discuss both these views and g

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Some people believe that electronic calculators should not be allowed in school until after the pupils have mastered mental arithmetic. Others believe that calculators save pupils time especially with complicated calculations. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

The issue of whether using electronic calculators for children is beneficial or detrimental to their mental activity remains a controversial one that always opens the door for great deal of discussions and debates. However, I am convinced that the benefits of this issue far outweigh the drawbacks.

As the year passes everything is changing in alarming rate as well as the technology. Invention of calculators has contracted the viable time of pupils and also accelerated their work. Not only pupils use this, but also the people who work and study in this field. They are able to solve complex p...

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Average: 7.6 (5 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 576, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a conservative way" with adverb for "conservative"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... technological tools. They start to act in a conservative way whereas the world is in need of radical...
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Line 7, column 96, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a conservative way" with adverb for "conservative"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...that as long as we encourage them to be in a conservative way, we should give a chance to them so as ...
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Line 7, column 151, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ve way, we should give a chance to them so as to interest in new technology more and mor...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'well', 'whereas', 'as to', 'at least', 'in short', 'as well as']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.207602339181 0.247107548796 84% => OK
Verbs: 0.16081871345 0.15552993741 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0877192982456 0.0946569551029 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0584795321637 0.0501201869031 117% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0730994152047 0.0437536398559 167% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.137426900585 0.122223957237 112% => OK
Participles: 0.0350877192982 0.0403219363162 87% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.9875537872 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0526315789474 0.0326786765898 161% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => More particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0906432748538 0.0861751148067 105% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0204678362573 0.0214082191602 96% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00584795321637 0.0119246538136 49% => More subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, whom, Whose, That.....'

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1853.0 1933.38276553 96% => OK
No of words: 318.0 316.052104208 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.82704402516 6.10592293882 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.20519365927 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.308176100629 0.37474360046 82% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.24213836478 0.284197041944 85% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201257861635 0.203843217982 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.135220125786 0.137313986986 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9875537872 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550314465409 0.560935902166 98% => OK
Word variations: 58.4224230827 60.7401812628 96% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0911823647 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.7142857143 20.7725350517 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.92400255 49.5273876611 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.357142857 93.4120437189 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7142857143 15.2821509519 149% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.928571428571 0.594174754866 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.39078156313 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01102204409 60% => OK
Readability: 46.9281221923 49.1922392462 95% => OK
Elegance: 1.3 1.69127372897 77% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219782379403 0.332604825255 66% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.1249621325 0.102734651613 122% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0643876833224 0.0668474354756 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.576639666685 0.534917948617 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.173513758465 0.148666948902 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100526231349 0.13441755203 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452574190928 0.0742828286743 61% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.419048385656 0.324241079732 129% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.031874297454 0.0640056729886 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147527345293 0.22793763319 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.051460017007 0.0582452615562 88% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.68436873747 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.41883767535 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 5.88977955912 102% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.60220440882 115% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.00200400802 200% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 10.493987976 124% => OK

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 7.0 Out of 9