School children are becoming far too dependent on computers This is having an alarming effect on reading and writing skills Teachers need to avoid using computers in the classroom at all costs and go back to teaching basic study skills Do you agree or d

Technology has become a vital part of everyone’s life including children. Although we try to limit the use of mobile phones in younger age, they are able to access computers at school or home for educational purposes. Some people are concerned about the benefits that computers provide because it might drag the literacy of children, and they believe that computer should be avoided. I am of the opinion that computers gives more benefits than harm, and I am strongly disagree with the viewpoint.

On writing aspect, computers might not help improve the quality of hand writing but it does improve the quality of communication. Firstly, auto correction fixes mistyping and disagreement to ensure that the message is written with the right meaning. Secondly, writing on a computer can be deleted or reworded easily without any messy ink. Children can rearrange their sentences to maximize the quality of communication without the need to concern about rewriting the whole paragraph in paper again and again. Finally, when connected to the Internet, children can access a thesaurus to see an expanded list of synonyms and antonyms which improves the quality of their writing further.

On the other side, computers also help in reading aspect. Children can open an online dictionary to understand unfamiliar words at the second they find them. Furthermore, they can access a Wikipedia or online learning website to learn new things, those websites also have a lot of articles to be read.

In summary, computers helps improving both writing and reading skills while trading-off with hand writing skill. Although the trade-off is real, hand writing is less concerning skill than communication. More than that, I believe that in the upcoming century, people would use email rather than writing in ink and pen.

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Average: 7.1 (9 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 474, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'disagreed'.
Suggestion: disagreed
...e benefits than harm, and I am strongly disagree with the viewpoint. On writing aspec...
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Line 7, column 29, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to improve' or 'improve'.
Suggestion: to improve; improve
...be read. In summary, computers helps improving both writing and reading skills while t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, while, in summary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1526.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 292.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22602739726 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74985285947 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592465753425 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 506.74238477 94% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.4660026495 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.733333333 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4666666667 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15424968002 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525299237717 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0234954281309 0.0667982634062 35% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0904956335438 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0113947659173 0.056905535591 20% => 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: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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