A recent study has shown that over 50% of school children cannot write legibly. The researchers concluded that the widespread use of smartphones, tablets and computers by children from as young as 12 months old was to blame. We are now living in a “post-paper” world where people are connected to one device or another at all times.
Should schools stop teaching handwriting entirely and focus instead on their typing skills? Is handwriting no longer relevant?
In today’s technological era, there is much debate on whether children should focus on handwriting or typing skills. Some people believe that school should stop teaching handwriting entirely as it is no longer relevant. While others argue that handwriting is more helpful to learn basic things and later utilise in typing skills. I am inclined to believe that school should focus on children’s handwriting even though typing skills have become essential these days. This essay will discuss importance of handwriting and lead to a plausible conclusion.
To commence with, handwriting is a basic tool which school should teach to every child as it is used in many subjects like taking notes, taking tests and doing classroom works and homework for almost every content area. And handwriting plays vital role in their academic performance where poor handwriting can have a pervasive effect on their school performance. For example, when children learn how to write letter “m”, they can learn its sound and attention to linkage among handwriting, reading and spelling skills.
To continue with, when child understands the meaning and sound of each word then they can understand the comprehend and context quickly. Which will allow them to express and present them in better way and somewhere it helps children to develop their brain. Even school should encourage children to write better and conduct competition periodically basis and reward them for good handwriting. For instance, my sister won the State level poem competition when she was in school because of her writing skills and now she is a writer. So, teaching handwriting can open career opportunity for children.
In conclusion, the foregoing discussion propounds the view that although typing skills help children in today’s technological era to survive still good handwriting help them to improve their performance and develop their brain.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
so, still, then, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.5418719212 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 6.10837438424 180% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 8.36945812808 191% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 5.94088669951 168% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 20.9802955665 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 31.9359605911 100% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.75862068966 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1636.0 1207.87684729 135% => OK
No of words: 300.0 242.827586207 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45333333333 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86262505792 2.71678728327 105% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 139.433497537 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573333333333 0.580463131201 99% => OK
syllable_count: 468.9 379.143842365 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.8380600643 50.4703680194 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.857142857 104.977214359 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 20.9669160288 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 7.25397266985 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128196627816 0.242375264174 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0494314933559 0.0925447433944 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0357674472346 0.071462118173 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0809781351212 0.151781067708 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0224470907717 0.0609392437508 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: 15.0 12.6369458128 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.1260098522 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.9458128079 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 11.5310837438 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.32886699507 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 55.0591133005 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.5123152709 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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