New technologies change the way children spend their free time. Do the advantages of these changes outweigh the disadvantages?
New technologies are indeed changing every aspect of our daily life, including the way children spent their spare time. Although I agree that these changes might have certain advantages for children, I believe there are more flaws than merits.
Admittedly, the advantages of new technologies for children are undeniable. By a quick flick on the apple store, we could find plenty of educational applications, which gain children’s knowledge and widen their horizon. Moreover, new technologies help children improve their social skills. With the soar of social network users, children are allowed to talk to others at any time in any locations, which trains interpersonal communication skills. Finally, children can get closer to their friends or parents by playing motion-sensing games together in their free time.
However, I would argue that these are only some narrow views, and for children, there are more disadvantages of new technologies. First of all, new technologies destroy teenagers’ physical health, especially eyesight. There is no more convincing example of the myopia rates in China. After new technologies gained their popularity, many children have become addicted to smartphones and video games. As a result, the myopia rates in school increased significantly. Second, new technologies have negative impacts on children’s mentality. In that I mean, with the lack of rigorous supervision and rules, so available videos and games with violent and erotic contents are for kids, which is likely to ruin children’s pureness and innocence. Finally, without the mature consciousness of self-protection, children might be allured by the crooks on the social network, and thus meet them in real-world, which put themselves into danger.
In conclusion, while new technologies certainly have positive impacts on children, I believe the advantages cannot outweigh disadvantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, thus, while, i mean, in conclusion, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1621.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 285.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.68771929825 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15245144903 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60701754386 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 486.0 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9119240193 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.3125 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8125 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => 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 : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.39632815711 0.244688304435 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126567938517 0.084324248473 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0911633018446 0.0667982634062 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249868307283 0.151304729494 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0780379033685 0.056905535591 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.43 12.4159519038 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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