Since the economic reform started, China has been experiencing various aspects of social and cultural changes in the past 4 decades. However, quite a few traditional values continue to exist and prevail, among which valuing education plays a central role in the day-to-day lives of many households. Thus, I believe that parents today take part in their children’s education as extensively and deeply as their counterparts in the past.
Before the reform and opening-up, due to the approximate socioeconomic condition, people wouldn’t have to work overtime frequently or sacrifice family life for a better standard of living. So they could spend a large proportion of time accompanying their children who were assisted in promotion of academic performance. In addition, it wasn’t until 2 decades ago that the higher education in China had started to enlarge its enrolment, which means once a student was admitted to any university and graduated later a job would be guaranteed and assigned to this graduate. As a result, parents staked their children’s prospects on this once-in-a lifetime opportunity, making any possible efforts to help them achieve better grades.
Nowadays, most adults are busy with their work, thus depriving themselves of much quality time, let alone helping their children with the homework. Another significant change is that, as the curriculum develops, it is very likely that parents wouldn’t possess the specific knowledge and teaching skills for certain subjects. However, Chinese culture traditionally attaches great importance to education as a means of enhancing a person’s worth and career. Instead of directly teaching their children, parents today play an important role of more of a designer and planner for the children’s education. There is still a close link between parents and children in terms of schooling, family education and extracurricular activities.
Many vivid cases keep being witnessed in our life. For example, to explore a child’s talents and interests, a father or mother could spend an hour driving, sending children to a football club. He or she may also have to learn a lot of knowledge about assessment of children’s psychological conditions, methodology of encouragement, arrangement and scheduling of different training sessions and so on. Statistics have shown that there is no noticeable disparity in parent involvement among different times, which means little difference can be seen in terms of parents’ eagerness and participation throughout modern history.
To sum up, given the fact that education, as part of the legacy of the traditional Chinese culture, is highly valued and paid much attention to by parents, it is very understandable that every generation highly respect it to a similarly great extent regardless of time change.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, similarly, so, still, thus, for example, in addition, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 8.0752688172 272% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2397.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 436.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49770642202 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08456394996 2.67179642975 115% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 212.727598566 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.623853211009 0.524837075471 119% => OK
syllable_count: 738.0 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.0393117306 48.9658058833 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.0 100.406767564 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6470588235 20.6045352989 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88235294118 5.45110844103 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.349927801937 0.236089414692 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0999006049451 0.076458572812 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110732312223 0.0737576698707 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162031425249 0.150856017488 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104591101272 0.0645574589148 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 11.7677419355 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 58.1214874552 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.1575268817 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 10.9000537634 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.02 8.01818996416 125% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 86.8835125448 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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