Some people believe that online reading materials should only be used for a child to learn to read whereas others believe only printed materials should be used Discuss both views and give your opinion

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Some people believe that online reading materials should only be used for a child to learn to read, whereas others believe only printed materials should be used. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

The advent of the Internet has made knowledge available online to everybody. While some people feel that pedagogical experts should use traditional resources to teach youngsters how to read, I side with those who argue that online e-books should be incorporated into contemporary early education.

On the one hand, there are several reasons why people favor using printed books to educate minors. The first one is associated with health. It has been proven that long exposure to computer screens leads to the deterioration of eyesight, which might be a hindrance to children’s development from their very early age. Secondly, these children are too naïve to be taught how to use complex technological gizmos and the Internet that are introduced into education for reading purposes. Consequently, they might face challenges to use those high-tech media. Finally, there are wider technical and economic implications of online resources: the costs of equipment and the low connections to the world-wide-web in the developing world. Therefore, books are a time-tested and safer means to educate children on how to read, supporters add.

Despite the above argumentation, I agree with those arguing to make wise use of online resources to teach the youth to read. Initially, in no way will these young learners damage their eyesight if they are carefully instructed on how to use these sources of knowledge and are made to wear ray-proof sunglasses, for example. In addition to this, if they are exposed to technology and the Internet from their early childhood, chances of them growing up to be computer-literate adults are high. I do understand that this might be an issue to fully implement in the developing countries, but, indeed, the investment into education pays the greatest interest and brings huge benefits if done correctly. Thus, teaching youngsters to read through online means is highly effective.

In conclusion, although paper-delivered knowledge acquisition might be safer in some respects, I think that if we incorporate online sources into teaching reading to children, we will see more technologically-advanced individuals in the future; despite the problems mentioned above, which are not insurmountable.

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Average: 8.5 (3 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'using'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'challenge' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: using
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1886.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 347.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43515850144 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23227593763 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 176.041082164 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5734870317 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 596.7 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.000444443 49.4020404114 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.733333333 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1333333333 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.86666666667 7.06120827912 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213388231221 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.069449341925 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0555640094366 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140988851082 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0470011548345 0.056905535591 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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