Some people think that increasing communication usage of computers and mobile phones by young people has had a negative effect on their reading and writing skills.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
There is a common belief that high-tech gadgets such as computers and mobile phones have become popular in today’s society. While these modern devices could have some detrimental consequences to young people’s reading and writing capability, there is more compelling evidence that they have a larger positive impact on improving such skills.
On the one hand, there are many reasons why the over-dependence on modern communication devices would negatively affect young people’s reading and writing ability. Firstly, if young people read books or news on mobile phones or computers connected to the internet, they could not entirely concentrate on it. This is because they are more likely to be distracted by some attractive apps, such as Facebook, switter or games, thus they do not have sufficient time for reading activities. This lack of reading practices would obviously lead to poor reading competence. In addition, there are lots of software programs now available on almost all electronic devices making young people sedentary in writing skills. Microsoft Office, for instance, offers users convenient functions that help correct grammatical mistakes automatically when composing text documents. Such habits could facilitate the way they interact, but impair their writing skills in the long term.
On the other hand, I would argue that the proper use of computers and mobile phones would significantly contribute to the improvement of reading and writing skills. An important reason is that by using those devices with access to the internet, users could get an unlimited source of information, ranging from news to novels whenever they want. Particularly, for those who learn languages, technological devices are useful tools which allow them to form a good habit of daily reading and enrich their vocabularies. Another reason is that with the development of social networking sites, young people now can easily create blogs and express their thoughts. For example, some teenagers who frequently travel often update stories about natural scenery that they visited. By writing on a daily basis, their writing skills are certainly improved.
In conclusion, notwithstanding computers and mobile phones are disadvantageous to enhancing the young generation’s reading and writing skills, I am of the strong opinion that such technology devices would bring about lots of benefits if they have got proper usage.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2053.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 372.0 315.596192385 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5188172043 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86853401538 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564516129032 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 635.4 506.74238477 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5778556027 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.3125 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6875 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.275800980005 0.244688304435 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0965538420601 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0606065232467 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174974270394 0.151304729494 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0492462558334 0.056905535591 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => 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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