TPO 09 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

In the last decades, millions of children have been born and raised in the golden days of digital era. Being surrounded my modern technology ever since they were born, I believe this generation is in a favorable condition that will enable them to leverage their creativity and even surpass the previous generations in the future.

First of all, creativity seems to be a hallmark of children and modern technology actually offers them even more inspiration to keep on creating new ideas. Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see kids with their own digital devices such as mobile phone, notepad or personal computer. Having constant access to virtual space means children are immersed in the world of endless ideas which will in turn become a source of food for their imagination and other cognitive functions. A recent study has shown children who use mobile devices on a regular basis tend to come up with more creative ways of solving puzzles and math problems, as compared to their peers who know little about digital devices. Therefore, it would be wrong to say technology chokes the creativity growth of children; in contrast, the opposite is the reality.

Furthermore, as grown-ups, there has been many times when we can’t help but getting amazed by today youngsters’ unimaginable ideas on the same thing we used to create. It can be said that our past creations are not lost but rather be innovated along with the development of technology. In the past, children explored and expanded their land of creativity through building legos, creating artworks and making crafts. Such activities are what modern children are doing too, except that they have gone beyond what past children could have ever dreamed of. For example, besides building lego constructions, children can maximize their creativity and imagination through creating a whole new country of their own in video games. Also, not just making kites and paper-planes, nowadays children are writing codes to run their self-made robots. The enormous extent of what children can do with their imagination seems to strongly correlate with the growth rate of technology.

All in all, everyone agrees children, irrespective of what time they come from, have always been the most creative population on the globe. That being said, with the help of new technology, children born on modern days appear incredibly better at generating fascinating original ideas, compared to their peers of the past. This is mostly because technology has provided plenty of resources for their development.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, furthermore, so, therefore, for example, in contrast, such as, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2139.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 413.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17917675545 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6882816703 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 212.727598566 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => 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: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.4081162126 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.823529412 100.406767564 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2941176471 20.6045352989 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58823529412 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186378959006 0.236089414692 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0640291239419 0.076458572812 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0298154839371 0.0737576698707 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117906894163 0.150856017488 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0237151443537 0.0645574589148 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 11.7677419355 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 58.1214874552 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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