Maintaining public libraries is a waste of time since digital technology is now replacing their function. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
To get the task response right you need to
discuss both public libraries and digital technology
state a clear position saying to what extent you agree – the basic options being a lot/not at all/slightly
Digital technology has without question changed the way we read and access books and this threatens the role of the public library. My view is that while there is a good argument for saying libraries are much less relevant nowadays, they still perform a vital function and should be be maintained.
The advance of online reading technologies and services is one compelling argument in favour of limiting any funding public libraries . It is now possible to not just buy almost any book you want online through stores such as Amazon, you are also able to borrow books for a small subscription fee from various sites. Indeed, these online services are generally much more comprehensive and reliable than any provided by a local library where you can often have to wait weeks for the book you want. In these circumstances, it is quite possible to argue that public libraries are out of date and have been largely overtaken by technology.
Despite this, public libraries do still have some role to play and it would be a mistake to abolish them entirely. One such role is lending books to children and encouraging children to acquire the reading habit books by having schemes that reward them for borrowing books on a regular basis. Many parents who are anxious about the amount of screen time their children have would much prefer to visit a library where they can more closely monitor the books their children are taking out. Another important role public libraries perform is stocking a wide range of reference books and more specialised books that are typically not available via online services. While these services may be limited, they still matter and show that libraries still perform an important function.
My conclusion is a mixed one. On the one hand, I believe it is true that nearly all the function of libraries have been replaced by digital technology, but in some areas, namely children’s books and reference books, public libraries do have a role to play.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: My view is that while there is a good argument for saying libraries are much less relevant nowadays, they still perform a vital function and should be be maintained.
Description: The fragment be be contains a repeated word
Suggestion: Delete a possible duplicate word:
Sentence: It is now possible to not just buy almost any book you want online through stores such as Amazon, you are also able to borrow books for a small subscription fee from various sites.
Description: The token to is not usually followed by a negator
Suggestion: Refer to to and not
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 334 350
No. of Characters: 1610 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.275 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.82 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.471 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 114 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.425 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.385 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.144 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 190, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hile there is a good argument for saying libraries are much less relevant nowaday...
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Line 1, column 282, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: be
...ill perform a vital function and should be be maintained. The advance of online re...
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Line 1, column 285, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'been'?
Suggestion: been
... perform a vital function and should be be maintained. The advance of online re...
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Line 3, column 134, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...of limiting any funding public libraries . It is now possible to not just buy almo...
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Line 5, column 607, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ference books and more specialised books that are typically not available via onl...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'while', 'such as', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.227146814404 0.247107183377 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.180055401662 0.155533422707 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0969529085873 0.0946595960268 102% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0747922437673 0.0501214627716 149% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0526315789474 0.0437548338989 120% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0969529085873 0.122226691241 79% => OK
Participles: 0.0415512465374 0.0403226058552 103% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.57711711712 2.80594681477 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0277008310249 0.0326793684256 85% => OK
Particles: 0.00277008310249 0.00163938923432 169% => OK
Determiners: 0.0886426592798 0.0861772015684 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.016620498615 0.021408717616 78% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0138504155125 0.011925033212 116% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1983.0 1933.35771543 103% => OK
No of words: 335.0 316.048096192 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.91940298507 6.12580529183 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.20517956788 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.35223880597 0.374742101984 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.262686567164 0.28420135186 92% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.170149253731 0.203846283523 83% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.10447761194 0.137316102897 76% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57711711712 2.80594681477 92% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.037074148 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537313432836 0.56093040696 96% => OK
Word variations: 57.2776378902 60.7387585426 94% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 25.7692307692 20.7743622355 124% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7436448263 49.517814964 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.538461538 127.492653851 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7692307692 20.7743622355 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.615384615385 0.814263465372 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.99599198397 125% => OK
Readability: 52.0378874856 49.1944974215 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.18918918919 1.69124875643 70% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.327415926253 0.332605444948 98% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.120782847115 0.102741220458 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0732320410327 0.0668466124924 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.537906474658 0.534860350844 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.145207637922 0.148594505496 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139624298518 0.134430193775 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562323721375 0.0742795772207 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.320375858126 0.324371583561 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0739931652159 0.0638462369009 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.23451291726 0.228012699653 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277344144311 0.058150111329 48% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.68436873747 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.5751503006 78% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 1.9629258517 102% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.4468937876 105% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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