Is it good for children to start using computers from an early stage and spend long hours on them?
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages
In recent times, people have debated on the relevance of permitting youths to have unhindered access to computers at tender age as well as using them for long duration. In view of the above, children can acquire skills and study for assignments by using the computer, but the drawbacks should also be taken into consideration.
To begin with, kids can develop new set of skills such as coding, typing and graphic designs, which are often not taught in schools. In other words, they become better than their peers and in addition, are sought after by Ivy-league institutions. A survey by the Times magazine reported that, 60% of pupils admitted into Harvard were those with special Information and Technology skills. Furthermore, they have the opportunity to get online aids, which are helpful for solving assignments which are hitherto cumbersome. These sets of children gain better understanding of subjects and are better prepared for examinations. For instance, the top three students at Queens College relied on additional materials they get on the internet for exam preparation.
On the flip side, although spending long hours on computer may have its benefits, the demerits are worrisome and need to be considered. Firstly, adolescent can have uncontrolled access to social media platforms such Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter, and therefore, can get distracted from their studies. Consequently, they may experience a sharp decline in academic performance. For example, school teachers in America reported that, 70% of students that performed poorly are those with multiple social media presence. Secondly, they can access dangerous and immoral sites such as pornography and betting sites, as well as those that enhance cyber-crimes. Youths, being very vulnerable might resort to rape, which is a global concern in trying to practice what they learnt from those poisonous sites.
To recapitulate, while long duration on computer has its benefits which are not limited to skills development and additional study aid, the setbacks such as distraction and access to immoral platforms need to be put under check.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in addition, such as, as well as, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1792.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38138138138 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83831287633 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600600600601 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.9007936412 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.466666667 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.0 7.06120827912 184% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144287896857 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0455404962831 0.084324248473 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0475457831446 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0915969126569 0.151304729494 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0484664557284 0.056905535591 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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