Illiteracy has traditionally been viewed as largely a third world problem.
However it is becoming apparent that in countries such as the USA and Australia, illiteracy is on the increase.
Discuss possible causes for this and its effect on society.
The importance of education is undeniable and a crucial cog in development of any country. Off late, it has been noticed that industrial advanced countries are not prone to illiteracy as there has been a steep rise in illiterates among countries such as the USA and Australia. Increasing population , technology advancements are primary reasons contributing to this trend. This essay will analyze the repercussions of this change and aforementioned causes in details along with relevant examples.
To begin with technology advancements such as internet and gaming consoles have been addictive to young minds. In addition to that, internet has diminished the importance of formal education as it has paved path to many successful talents. It has been imprinted that even if there is no formal education, there are many other ways to obtain knowledge and skills consequently earn money to be successful. To illustrate this, an oxford study suggests that 25% of top 500 richest individuals comprises of social media stars aging below 20.
Secondly, rise in population has made resources scarce. This has resulted in severe competition for limited seats in public schools and colleges. Unable to afford private education, many parents deny their children the right to education. It also fuels youngsters to indulge in many anti social elements such as drug usage and extortion This is a very disturbing trend that could do more harm to society than good. As many reports state , 75% of criminals in prisons are illiterates indicating the role of formal education in a healthy society.
To recapitulate, although being illiterate doesn’t necessarily mean not being successful it is important in developed countries to not deny their citizens of formal education and maintain the literacy rate as high as possible by efficient management of resources and also stringent educa-tion policies.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, if, second, secondly, so, in addition, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1599.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38383838384 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0021785284 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609427609428 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 506.74238477 101% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.7544614025 49.4020404114 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.214285714 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2142857143 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160464548799 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0472801363601 0.084324248473 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060763160975 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0912861826373 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0743335629432 0.056905535591 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.68 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 299, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...USA and Australia. Increasing population , technology advancements are primary rea...
^^
Line 4, column 341, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ion, there are many other ways to obtain knowledge and skills consequently earn m...
^^
Line 4, column 491, Rule ID: COMPRISES_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of
...that 25% of top 500 richest individuals comprises of social media stars aging below 20. Se...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 437, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...society than good. As many reports state , 75% of criminals in prisons are illiter...
^^
Line 5, column 546, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... formal education in a healthy society. To recapitulate, although being illitera...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, if, second, secondly, so, in addition, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1599.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38383838384 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0021785284 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609427609428 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 506.74238477 101% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.7544614025 49.4020404114 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.214285714 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2142857143 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160464548799 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0472801363601 0.084324248473 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060763160975 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0912861826373 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0743335629432 0.056905535591 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.68 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.