Illiteracy continues to be a concern for many countries in the world today. What are the causes of illiteracy in the modern world, and what effects does it have on the people concerned and on society as a whole?
It is often said that high illiteracy rate is one of the most alarming issues in many countries, especially less affluent ones these days. There are two main causes, and two key impacts, which I will outline now.
Perhaps the most widely-observed factor is the lack of education, meaning that there are not enough education facilities in relation to the population’s size. It is notable, for example, that the scarcity of schools or even class rooms has resulted in many African children stopping going to school. Another well-known root may be the families’ financial backgrounds, which means that numerous parents are too poor to let their children pursue higher education, as such youngsters have to start working to support their families financially as soon as they can. Examples can be seen in Thailand, where lots of kids have been sent to boxing clubs to be trained with the sole purpose of becoming professional fighters so that these boxers would be able to join in commercial tournaments.
Turning to the depressing effects of illiteracy, the most severe impact would be the high unemployment rate, as many young adults are uneducated and have few job opportunities. In fact, this may potentially lead to such youngsters being tempted to get involved in petty crimes such as shoplifting or vandalism, making the crime rate become dangerously high. A further long-term influence would be for nations to lack a large number of well-educated workers, weakening the foreign investment. Consequently, the economic prospects of these countries are less likely to be improved, lessening the development of such nations to some extent.
In conclusion, the main causes of illiteracy generally relate to education system and families’ income status, whereas the impacts are seen in high joblessness rate and slow economic growth.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 418, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, if, may, so, well, whereas, for example, in conclusion, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1563.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31632653061 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04153341923 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62925170068 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.6459633687 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.090909091 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7272727273 20.7667163134 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.81818181818 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.123793214251 0.244688304435 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0439243070193 0.084324248473 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0277381657816 0.0667982634062 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0700925987226 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0140376658043 0.056905535591 25% => 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: 17.0 13.0946893788 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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