It is generally agreed that fewer people today write letter(through the mail or post) compared with the twentieth century. Which factors have led to this situation? What will the impact be on the lives of future generations?
It is often said that people in twentieth century wrote more letters (through the mail or post) than those in today's world. I think there are two main causes and a number of damaging effects for the lives of future generations.
The major cause is the difficult handwriting. People feel difficult to read their own handwriting, so they prefer texting with the keyboard to handwriting, . Texting is quicker than handwriting because of people do not have to use their minds while they relay on technology to make the decisions for them. The second key cause is the efficiency of e-mail and social media in sending message. E-mail, as a written form of communication, not only have the permanence of a letter, but also can be sent instantaneously and can be replied quickly. This is the blend of the speed of a telephone call with the long-lasting quality of a physical message.
The effect on the lives of a future generations can be quite devastating. As technology advances, Instant Messaging gives online users the opportunity to conduct a written conversation. However, communication through Instant Messenger has many poor grammars and it teaches many of young users to write in such a way. Text messaging often results in poor written messages that have potential damage in decreasing general writing skills.
Overall, the difficulty of handwriting and the efficiency of the electronic message are the key causes behind this trend. The effect on the lives of future generations is the decreasing of general writing skills.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
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Line 3, column 37, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'generation'?
Suggestion: generation
.... The effect on the lives of a future generations can be quite devastating. As technology...
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Line 3, column 362, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... messaging often results in poor written messages that have potential damage in d...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, while, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1275.0 1615.20841683 79% => OK
No of words: 252.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05952380952 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93131973873 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 176.041082164 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563492063492 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 398.7 506.74238477 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.1797681358 49.4020404114 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.0714285714 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.57142857143 7.06120827912 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.255415761078 0.244688304435 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0810015008032 0.084324248473 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0690684219048 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153249473178 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0331080346806 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.0946893788 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.77 12.4159519038 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 78.4519038076 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => 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: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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