With the increasing popularity of computers and calculators, student literacy is decreasing dramatically. What are the positive and negative effects the progress of science and technology has brought about?

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With the increasing popularity of computers and calculators, student literacy is

decreasing dramatically. What are the positive and negative effects the progress of

science and technology has brought about?

Submitted by Amory on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 17:59

It has been widely noted that, with the growing use of computers and calculators both in

the classroom and in the home, the level of literacy and mathematical ability of students is

dropping. This raises serious doubts about the value of the progress of science and

technology. Here I will discuss the pros and cons of this question.

First of all, advances in science and technology have certainly brought about many

benefits for mankind. They have made our lives more comfortable and healthier. In

addition, they have eased the burden of work for most people and provided them with

more leisure opportunities, while at the same time increasing productivity dramatically.

Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that technology has some negative side-effects. As

mentioned above, with computers which check spelling, grammar and calculation for

them, students have little incentive to learn how to do these things for themselves. Also,

the availability of TV programs and videos encourages an unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle.

Another aspect of this issue is that technology may be good or bad, depending on how we

use it. For instance, dynamite may be used to make road construction easier, or it may be

used to kill people. Again, nuclear reactors can supply huge amounts of cheap electricity,

but if they are carelessly handled they can cause devastating pollution.

We can conclude that the progress of science and technology has both positive and

negative effects. What we must do is to make sure that the positive ones are encouraged

and the negative ones are eliminated as far as possible. Among other things, this means

that students are warned not to let computers and calculators do all their work for them.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, nevertheless, so, while, for instance, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1486.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 280.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30714285714 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8809698445 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607142857143 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4237720263 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.0666666667 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6666666667 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 7.06120827912 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 20.0 4.38176352705 456% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 26.0 5.01903807615 518% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.241232495909 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0727555300905 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0675105852402 0.0667982634062 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0648275186328 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0601741903705 0.056905535591 106% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
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: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => 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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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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