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 have good handwriting or typing skills. Some people believe that school should stop teaching handwriting entirely and focus instead of their typing skills and handwriting is no longer relevant. While others argue that handwriting is helpful for to learn basic things and understand the words. I am inclined to believe that school should focus on children’s handwriting. This essay will discuss both side in details and thus lead to a plausible conclusion.
To commence with, handwriting is a basic tool used in many subjects like taking notes, taking tests and doing classroom works and homework for almost all every content area. Good handwriting help children to build up confidence and improve performance where poor handwriting can have pervasive effect on 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.
On the flip side, today where handwriting skills are on verge of getting disappeared from our life, and school are focusing more on typing skills. And there are many word-processing programs and assistive technology are undoubtedly available for children to help with writing problems. For instance, my friend never had a good handwriting but excellent typing skills now she works from home as content writer and earning well from her typing skill. So, typing skills not only people help to present their work in better way but open doors for several opportunities.
In conclusion, the foregoing discussion propounds the view that even though typing skill help you in today’s technological era to survive still good handwriting not only help children to improve their performance but also help them to pay more attention to content and understand the words by writing down.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, still, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.5418719212 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 8.36945812808 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 20.9802955665 81% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1626.0 1207.87684729 135% => OK
No of words: 300.0 242.827586207 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42 5.00649968141 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89953252937 2.71678728327 107% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 139.433497537 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586666666667 0.580463131201 101% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 379.143842365 123% => 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: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7597339394 50.4703680194 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.076923077 104.977214359 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0769230769 20.9669160288 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53846153846 7.25397266985 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
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: 0.115106269156 0.242375264174 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0499263866133 0.0925447433944 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.040256810368 0.071462118173 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0781522999163 0.151781067708 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0143251997308 0.0609392437508 24% => 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: 15.6 12.6369458128 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.1260098522 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.9458128079 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 11.5310837438 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.32886699507 93% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 55.0591133005 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.5123152709 76% => 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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