Some people think that the increasing use of computers and mobile phones for communication has a negative effect on young people's reading and writing skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is true that high-tech gadgets such as computers or mobile phones have become popular in our life. While I accept that these modern devices could cause some detrimental consequences to young people’s reading and writing capacity, I would argue that they have a largely positive impact on improving such skills.
On the one hand, there are many reasons why the over-dependence on modern communication devices would negatively affect youngsters’ writing and reading ability. Firstly, young people who send messages to others via applications such as WeChat or Weibo usually abbreviate their words in order to communicate faster. Particularly, some software programs such as Microsoft Word offer users convenient functions that help correct grammatical mistakes automatically when composing text documents. Such habits could facilitate the way they interact, but impair their writing skills in the long term. Secondly, as youngsters now spend most of their time playing computer games or watching TV shows on mobile phones, they do not have sufficient time for reading activities such as reading news or books. This lack of reading practices would obviously lead to poor reading competence.
On the other hand, I would argue that the proper use of computers and mobile phones would significantly contribute to the improvement of reading and writing skills. Perhaps the first reason is that by using those devices with access to the Internet, users could get an unlimited source of information, ranging from news to novels whenever they want. For those who learn languages, technological devices are useful tools that allow them to form a good habit of daily reading and enrich their vocabularies. Another reason is that, with the development of social networking sites, people now can easily create blogs and express their thoughts. For example, some teenagers who frequently travel often update stories about the natural scenery that they visited. By writing on a daily basis, their writing skills are certainly improved
In conclusion, it seems to me that the use of mobiles phones and computers could have both advantages and disadvantages for the reading and writing skills of the young generation, depending on the way they use them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 24.0651302605 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1899.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 353.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37960339943 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79306896814 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583569405099 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.6120281894 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.642857143 106.682146367 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2142857143 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57142857143 7.06120827912 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.29359888734 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0965035504253 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622131438978 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199742010218 0.151304729494 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338470576889 0.056905535591 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.0946893788 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.