Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
There is no shortage of debate, between parents or other family members, on whether their children should be allowed to play computer games. In my opinion, spending time on video games is a waste of time. I believe so for three reasons: deprivation of a variety of activities, lack of any kind of benefit, and implementation of wrong ideas.
Playing video-games deprives children from being involved in a myriad of activities. Children who play video-games choose to spend time inside the house, rather than play outside with friends. As such, they become less active, isolated and lonely. These are long-term consequences, as they are prominent in the early stages of mental and physical development. A child who spends most of his time gaming, is lured into this imaginary world online that provides an environment with no responsibilities, no need to study, to exercise and/or no need to socialize- activities that this child will find unnecessary, and stressful overtime as he does not practice them. This gamer stays constantly in his comfortable-zone, making him prone to regression. To this end, he becomes addicted to playing video-games. Therefore, this young gamer and others also, will become unhealthy, both physically and mentally.
Additionally, computer games do not contain any content that can be beneficial to your children. Although, there are the so-intended educational games in the online market, according to national studies, these games don’t educate, but only generate cash for manipulating companies. Online games don’t aid in physical performance either, since they require your kids to sit, and stare at a screen continuously. Therefore, there is no advantage in playing computer games.
Moreover, due to unlimited access to internet surfing, children may be harmed by having wrong ideas implemented in their mind. Peaceful games are hardly what you will find online. Instead, violent and battling games, which have gained popularity among youngsters, top every list. As a result, children who play these games show signs of aggressive behavior. I have an alarming experience of my own. When I was younger, a friend of mine, whom everyone praised as the technology genius, started changing attitude after playing war games on the computer. He spoke in a commanding tone, and acted as though he was in charge of some imaginary army. When a peer didn’t follow his orders, he relied on violence to change their stance. After a time, he was no longer looked up to as the smart student, but as the scary one. And, I should add that I didn’t see him go back to his old persona. As you can see, everyone can have their mental health severely affected by video games.
Overall, as conveyed in the essay, on the issue of whether parents should allow their children to play computer-based games waste time, because they deprive children from a normal schedule of activities, are not helpful in any way, and can actually cause undesired consequences.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, look, may, moreover, so, therefore, kind of, as a result, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 52.1666666667 127% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2516.0 1977.66487455 127% => OK
No of words: 485.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18762886598 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90445873441 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 212.727598566 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577319587629 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 797.4 618.680645161 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 61.0896932165 48.9658058833 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.1851851852 100.406767564 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.962962963 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.40740740741 5.45110844103 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 3.85842293907 363% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.278268665632 0.236089414692 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0728943121729 0.076458572812 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0757185426179 0.0737576698707 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169096267104 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0325833938648 0.0645574589148 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 10.9000537634 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 86.8835125448 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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