Some people say that in our modern age, it is unnecessary to teach children about the skills of handwriting.
To what extent 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.
In this technological era, some people believe that teaching their children to write by hand is unimportant because there are a huge number of supporting choices by technology. From my personal perspective, I strongly disagree with this notion for two following reasons.
First and foremost, at the individual level, writing plays an important role in the cognitive development of children. A research which had been done by the participation of 50 children used two distinct methods to teach them about the alphabet, the first one combined both graphic illustrations and self-writing while the second one only used images. The result proved that after a short time, two groups of children showed the similar result, however, a test which was taken a month after indicated that the children who followed the first method overweight the second group. It is also true with numerous secondary and high schools students, who consider that memorizing knowledge which was taken note by themself is easier than using other’s notes.
At the social level, handwriting presents culture and tradition. Maybe with some countries which use the latin alphabet or the same language with others, like America or the UK, handwriting is just letters, but with nations having their own unique alphabets, such as China or Japan, it is vital to preserve handwriting, because it is one of their national legacy. Not only shows the colour of one's own country, handwriting also tells us about our overwhelming history, from the victories to the development of every single area. There is no doubt why our government spends a huge amount of budget in preserving the national language and letters, and the general education program still forces us into learning handwriting in primary schools. For instance, Chinese administrations have warned that with the outburst of technological devices, such as mobile phones or computers, the youngsters gradually forgot how to write Chinese symbols by themselves, so the government has launched numerous campaigns or projects to encourage seniors learn more about the beauty of national language to conserve the national identity as well as avoid the cultural degradation.
In conclusion, it is beneficial to take advantage of technology in daily life, however, it is not reasonable to avoid our responsibility in teaching our seniors about handwriting, which is one of our most outstanding cultural specificities.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 711, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to handwrite'.
Suggestion: to handwrite
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, still, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 7.85571142285 0% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2057.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 384.0 315.596192385 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35677083333 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95200756894 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588541666667 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 638.1 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 20.2975951904 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.3103301324 49.4020404114 185% => OK
Chars per sentence: 171.416666667 106.682146367 161% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.0 20.7667163134 154% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06120827912 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.157074158838 0.244688304435 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0593936794642 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0320183768786 0.0667982634062 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100919023111 0.151304729494 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0238623784171 0.056905535591 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.8 13.0946893788 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 50.2224549098 61% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 11.3001002004 150% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.4 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.95 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 78.4519038076 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.1190380762 146% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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