As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The given statement argues that the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate as people rely more and more on technology to solve problems. It is necessary to clarify the meaning of the ability of humans to think for themselves before we move to the next step. The understanding that I propose here is the ability of problem-solving that improves the life quality of humans. Based on the clarification, I disagree with the above statement.
Technology relieves people from trivial, mundane tasks and gives us time to do more important things such as learning and working. As an international student, I washed clothes by my hand and hanged them out before coming to the U.S. It would take at least a day for me to get clean and dry clothes, which also made me tired and annoyed. Now I do laundry in a laundry room where I only need to pay a small amount of money and leave the clothes for the washing machine and the dryer to take care of. I am not reluctant to do the laundry anymore because technology makes my life much easier. Moreover, I have more time to do something that matters, such as studying for my homework or joining a student organization. Thus, I can contribute my time to tasks that maximize my thinking ability.
Furthermore, technology can increase the efficiency of our work and allow us to think for ourselves better. One obvious example is that I am now taking the online GRE test as a result of the advancement of technology. I don't need to worry about running out of paper or poor calligraphy because I have a long-lasting and standardized writing instrument — the computer. I can focus on thinking and organizing my writing structure instead of irrelevant things. Another example is the invention of Google Scholar. As a comprehensive scholar search engine, it provides rich and high-quality academic information which inspires my work and allows me to think better. I can conduct my research based on empirical evidence and diverse perspectives. The easy accessibility to rich information gives us opportunities to recognize different solutions to the same problem, and then we can solve the problem much easier.
When we realize technology as a strong tool for humans to live with less burden from logistics and become more productive in thinking for themselves, we need to be aware of certain circumstances that technology enslaves humans. Technology dependency, especially prevalent among adolescents, can lead to a devastating result. I have watched a documentary on young adolescents indulged in games spending all of their time and money in this virtual world. They didn't care about real life and could hardly think about anything else except games. When technology becomes the dominant part of life rather than tools that support life, the ability of humans to think for themselves will deteriorate because they no longer care about solving problems in the real world, which helps them to live better.
It is reasonable to conclude that technology has pros and cons, which may help or damage our life. What matters is how people utilize technology. Some people can leverage technology to achieve a more thoughtful and colorful life; some become slaves of it and lose their abilities to think for themselves.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus, at least, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.5258426966 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 33.0505617978 185% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2733.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 549.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9781420765 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84053189512 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89977093993 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515482695811 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 887.4 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4679873928 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.115384615 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1153846154 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42307692308 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273957021945 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0726811375383 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0960191413832 0.0758088955206 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178357058772 0.150359130593 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117023743697 0.0667264976115 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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