WRITING TASK 2
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
Many people believe that educational standards have declined in recent times.
Discuss the causes of this problem and offer some possible solutions to it.
Write at least 250 words.
Over the past fifty years, there has been a widely held perception that educational standards are in decline. In the following essay, I will elucidate the justifications for this, followed by some feasible solutions.
First and foremost, it is an irrefutable fact that technological advancements have had an adverse impact on student learning. To embark on, with the aid of calculators or websites on the Internet, an increasing number of students are relying so much on these sources that they are deprived of such core skills as numeracy and literacy. A salient example is the current issue of plagiarism occurring among children, leaving them unable to brainstorm as well as fully address difficulties when growing up. Another contributing factor is lack of practical knowledge among children. In other words, as students only learn by heart what they study at school without putting theoretical lessons into practice, they are highly likely to forget those materials shortly and thus have trouble practicing in later life.
In order to stem the tide of falling educational standards, it is first crucial for schools, especially primary ones, to tighten up regulations about prohibiting the use of calculators in examinations or giving students assignments unavailable on the Internet. Admittedly, although technology has facilitated our studies considerably, I would contend that those principles would aid in the development of children's lateral thinking. One further viable solution would be for teachers to give students more opportunities to put knowledge into practice. For instance, if students are encouraged to work on projects together, they would develop not only deeper understandings but also better relationships with classmates.
By way of conclusion, technology and lack of experience should be responsible for the decline in educational quality. Nonetheless, this trend can be significantly mitigated by stricter regulations as well as group activities in school.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, nonetheless, so, thus, well, for instance, as well as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1685.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 302.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57947019868 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19168370539 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.675496688742 0.561755894193 120% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.697304648 49.4020404114 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.615384615 106.682146367 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2307692308 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0840018632438 0.244688304435 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0306614924463 0.084324248473 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0349669582899 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0634597222351 0.151304729494 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0409273890174 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.0946893788 126% => 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: 15.38 12.4159519038 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.21 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => 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: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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