TPO-10 - Independent Writing Task 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.

Looking back to the old entertainment children had during the past years, it is concluded that children entertainment has widely changed, especially during the early years of the twenty-first century. Technology advances has provided children with various entertainment, the most widespread of which is computer games. Thus, nowadays computers play a pivotal role in children’s life.

According to the advocates of computer games, there are several kinds of computer games which can positively affect the children’s way of thinking. Strategic games fall under this category. These games give the children the opportunity to get involved in difficult situations which necessitates them to make their own decisions. By experiencing the consequence of their decisions, children may improve their decisions and become able to make better decisions in similar situations in the real life.

Furthermore, the advocates of computer games contend that computer games, particularly those games which involve memorizing and recalling various actions, help children improve their memorizing ability. They also have other advantages such as helping children learn how to use computer devices from low ages, which is becoming more and more essential in today’s world.

On the other hand, the opponents of computer games believe that these kinds of games, which mainly involve the player into the war and aggressive scenes, cause several serious problems for children such as behavioral abnormalities, aggression and so forth. Recent studies conducted on a sample of children playing long hours of computer games empirically suggest that these children show more aggressive behavior than other children who do not play computer games or at least play computer games for short hours. Also, based on the reports received from parents, it seems that children who play computer games get angry and fight with their peers at schools more frequently than those who do not play. This also supports the aggressive behavior assumption.

To conclude, I strongly agree with the supporters of computer games considering the points made above.

Votes
Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, look, may, so, thus, at least, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 15.1003584229 26% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 43.0788530466 51% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1822.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 323.0 407.700716846 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64086687307 4.8611393121 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88070804674 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 212.727598566 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.560371517028 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.9312025477 48.9658058833 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.142857143 100.406767564 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0714285714 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21428571429 5.45110844103 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230157471206 0.236089414692 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0909108972924 0.076458572812 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0623909011978 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136798427373 0.150856017488 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0489664936612 0.0645574589148 76% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 11.7677419355 142% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 58.1214874552 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.73 10.9000537634 144% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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