We have three important parts of education: reading, writing and math. Some people think every child will benefit from a fourth skill added to the list: computer skills. Do you agree or disagree?

It seems a consensus nowadays that computer technology is reaching an unprecedented prosperity and it is likely to continually develop in the future. Understandably, computer skills are becoming increasingly essential in terms of either schooling or employment. Some people argued that computer skills should receive an equal importance as reading, writing and math in teaching children. Form my perspective, regardless of the apparent advantages bring by computer skills, children should not access to them too early.

Admittedly, mastering the sophisticated computer skills is of benefit to children’s further education and even career. The demand of skilled employees in terms of computer is soaring in a stunned speed with the rapid progress of information science and technology. It is undoubted that graduates who received a quality education in this field tend to get employed with higher salary. Moreover, computer skills enable children to improve other skills including reading, writing and math, since there are plenty of free resources in the Internet which can be approached by young students.

Nevertheless, the dark side of computers to students, especially pupils should not be overlooked. The first disadvantage is that children are prone to addicted in some electronic games which, in some extent, pose a threat to their academic performance. There is no denying that young children cannot distinguish what is wrong and right without adequate life experiences. As a consequence, they may spend too much time in playing computers instead of learning other subjects.

Health hazard is another problem that can be result from computers. In order to learn more computer skills, young children have to keep their eyes in front of the screen for a really long time. This posture is inevitably detrimental to their body health. in addition, the sedentary lifestyle also does harm to other organs. To illustrated, the rate of weak vision is rising in a alarming speed in china since the spread of computers.

In conclusion, computer skills do provide some unique merits to children. While, I believe that, without any limits and appropriate guidance, more problems than benefits will surface when students access to computer in the young age.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, look, may, moreover, nevertheless, really, so, while, in addition, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1918.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 352.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44886363636 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95723217003 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607954545455 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 580.5 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.8551414633 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.947368421 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5263157895 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.10526315789 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20584730605 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0591976378218 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627019240147 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1131299527 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0512952512244 0.056905535591 90% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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