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.

There is no shortage of debate about whether it is better to play computer games for children or avoid spending time on this virtual world. As far as I am concerned, computer games are not harmful as they are though; even they have so many benefits. Recent researches show that if children spend three hours on computer, they become more relevant to technology in their adult ages. When above reasons are taken into account, playing computer games is preferable for young people particularly in some terms.
Firstly, we call this century as technology age and spending time on computer is nearly a must for children. We are witnessed the digital transition but zero generation was born into a completely digital world. Forbidding computer games sounds like forbidding breathing for them. For instance, think about an alone child whose friends are playing computer games all the time. When this child grow up, probably s/he will feel lonely due to the fact that s/he lived another life with his/her generation. Of course spending 12 hours per day is harmful for young people but forbidding computer games is outdated for this term.
Secondly, computer games help people to create a social enviroment that players can just communicate. Why do some adults think playing computer games means being anti-social? Actually there are tons of people who know themselves from these games. I can even find a roommate from computer games, so did I. Yes, I am living with a computer game addict who I met from a mobile game. In this age, friendships are becoming digital too like everything else.
Last but not least, computer games contribute language skills of player. In computer games, players from different countries have to communicate in one common language and this is English most of the time. By the purpose of communication, children force themselves and use so many new words. Also computer games are made in English language usually. That means, if a child wants to play game properly, s/he has to understand the instruction. Even this circumstance is a challange for children to learn English.
To sum up, it is obvious that peoples fear about computer games are expired. It is the time of Internet-based things and of course children are the biggest users of them. If parents try to do not allow playing computer games for their children, they can unbalance their future life. Although parents believe that this is for childrens favor, they might be wrong in their opinions. Dont forget that we call it the “computer age”!

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, as to, for instance, of course, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2118.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 424.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99528301887 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53775939005 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6277099118 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533018867925 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 654.3 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 24.685178239 48.9658058833 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.4444444444 100.406767564 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7037037037 20.6045352989 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85185185185 5.45110844103 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219522462169 0.236089414692 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691436247989 0.076458572812 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509648039533 0.0737576698707 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142064980737 0.150856017488 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0225918032778 0.0645574589148 35% => 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: 10.0 11.7677419355 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.1575268817 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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