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?
Illiteracy is still being a much-debating issue by the reason of its huge detrimental effects on both individuals and society. There seem to be three main causes and number of effects which will be discussed in this essay.
Perhaps the major cause appears to be an insufficient funding of educational initiatives by a government in the areas where illiteracy is spread. Indeed, without proper financial support It seems to be impossible to start schools and, therefore, teach local people how to read and write. Secondly, while a wide part of the world population has incomes below poverty line, this poor monetary status hinders illiteracy eradication because education is not affordable for these human beings. Finally, a role is played by tradition and customs in people’s lives should not be underestimated. For example, in some cultures education for women is prohibited due to a traditional way of life.
The effects of this on individuals and society can be quite significant. First of all, illiterate person have no skills to acquire knowledge. This leads to restrictions in self-development and employment opportunities. As well as that, it proves to be impossible to store knowledge in books and other information containers for that person. The second effect to consider is that an illiterate sector of population may be separated from educational, cultural and economic scope of a state. Therefore, the differences between illiterate and educated parts of society will be risen further. Finally, unlearned people cannot perform on par with others in economic scope of a country, and there is long-term detrimental impact on the country’s economy.
Overall, educational issues and tradition seem to be the main causes, and they affect both individuals and the movement of population in the areas affected.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, as well as, first of all, as well as that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1550.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38194444444 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17104959841 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600694444444 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.931407892 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.333333333 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8 7.06120827912 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.204000645421 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0642839050437 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0344571422895 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113524914162 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544126643276 0.056905535591 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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