New technologies have changed the way children spend their free time. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
Technology advances have enormous impacts on our daily life including changes in the way children enjoy their recreation time. However, like both sides of a coin, this innovation brings children both benefits and drawbacks. This essay attempts to shed light on both sides of this change before concluding if the benefits can minor the negative effects.
High-tech devices provide children with more-convenient learning and entertainment methods. In terms of learning, technological advancements illustrate information help children gain knowledge easier. Compared to books, television, smartphone, and laptop which are the most popular devices nowadays illustrate information more vividly with high-quality videos and images so that children may absorb new knowledge faster. In term of entertainment, playing video games help children both relax and build soft skills. For example, joining some tactic games on the computer which require children to work in teams or build strategies in order to win the game helps children to build teamwork skills and problem-solving skills.
However, there are compelling reasons as to why I am convinced that plus points can not cover minus points. The first reason is the blooming of the sedentary lifestyle among children as a result of technology overuse. As children give up physical activities for entertaining technologically, it may lead to further health problems such as obesity and short-sightedness. Another reason is that children may get access to toxic information while using social networks. We have yet fully control all sources of toxic documents published online so children may come across some violent videos and then perform bad behaviors accordingly.
In short, there is no doubt that technological innovation has both negative and positive effects on children's leisure activities. Personally, I believe that the former can not eat the cost of the latter.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, however, if, may, so, then, while, as to, for example, in short, no doubt, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1630.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 291.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.60137457045 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05682803504 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.646048109966 0.561755894193 115% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0379769915 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.666666667 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.194401943988 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0645808985738 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702775330405 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109640212144 0.151304729494 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450009468531 0.056905535591 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.2 12.4159519038 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.79 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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