79. Is the ability to write and read more important today than in the past? Why or why not? Use specific reasons to support your answer.
Reading and writing are basic skills that people need to gain in order to communicate with others and to achieve academic knowledge. Some people may think that people always need to know how to read and write. It is true. However, if you are asked about the concept of whether these skills are more important today than in the past, which is your opinion? In my point of view, knowing how to write and read the words now is more important than in the past. I will explore my ideas in the following essay.
First of all, before people often only communicated with people in local areas that meant they could talk to them in person. However, today with the invention of technology, people do not usually contact each other in person. To save time people usually send to others emails or text the messages. Therefore, if people cannot read or write the words, they cannot communicate with others; they will be isolated in their own positions.
Another reason is that today people learn by reading books and search news on the internet rather than telling stories as in the past did. Thus, if people are not able to read and write the words, they cannot gain any knowledge. Moreover, nowadays every job requires the ability of reading and writing. If people cannot write or read the words that means they are not able to have a job or they may only work as menials. For example, in the past, famers might be not know how to read and write the words, they just needed to work hard in their farms. But now, even famers need to read and write to know about the directions of many kinds of plants that are suitable for each kind of land. Likewise, they also need to know to read and write in order to apply the advances in agricultural technology in order to develop their products.
In conclusion, for two reasons, which I have just mentioned above, I strongly support the idea that nowadays people have to learn how to read and write. If one cannot write and read, one cannot live in this world.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, likewise, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, kind of, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1636.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 362.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.51933701657 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17371019806 2.67179642975 81% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 212.727598566 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.466850828729 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 504.9 618.680645161 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.5924345545 48.9658058833 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.1052631579 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0526315789 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26315789474 5.45110844103 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203394872678 0.236089414692 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0726345265316 0.076458572812 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630829414448 0.0737576698707 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132611374517 0.150856017488 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0713359812014 0.0645574589148 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 11.7677419355 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.94 10.9000537634 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.07 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 86.8835125448 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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