Modern communications mean that it’s no longer necessary to write letters.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
Technological advancements have outdated good old hand-written notes. A few decades ago, one could say that letter writing was an integral part of exchanging information, but in the new era of innovative gadgets, there is a more pragmatic approach. I strongly opine that innovative technology has entirely replaced primitive methods of communication. In this essay, I shall discuss the merits and the demerits of new communication mediums over the old means.
Communicative patterns have changed exponentially. Back in the day, people preferred handwritten letters to send messages to another person. Eventually, telephone lines were introduced, which further reduced the dependency on postal services. Furthermore, mobile phones and the internet connected people all across the world in a matter of few seconds. For instance, it is possible to have a quick chat with another person through an audio-visual device at any time of the day, to any part of the world.
Having said that, the older generations are still well acquainted with handwritten letters, as these hold sentimental values and a gesture of being thoughtful. Additionally, it is a painstaking, time-consuming effort to draft a letter. Great ancient scripts have been passed down through generations, in the forms of letters and manuscripts. A good example of sustaining this artistic tradition is observed in schools where letter writing is an important part of learning a language.
Having said that, new means of technology such as the electronic mails, messengers, and cell phones have made communication rather convenient and time conserving. Global acceptance of using these quick ways of communication have become widespread and inevitable. Hence, this leads to extinction of written communications.
In my view, many countries around the world have transformed their post offices into courier service stations, and posting letters is a secondary activity. Moreover, climatic changes have brought awareness to the wastage of paper. Cutting trees to produce paper, is deterrent for the environment. Citizens are now making a conscious effort to save and recycle paper. Therefore, writing letters is not encouraged extensively.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, hence, moreover, second, so, still, therefore, well, for instance, such as, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1876.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 334.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.61676646707 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19707771116 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.640718562874 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 506.74238477 115% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => 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: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.5457292398 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.3333333333 106.682146367 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.9047619048 20.7667163134 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95238095238 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0861016848393 0.244688304435 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.024463012527 0.084324248473 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0273141080259 0.0667982634062 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0472896601887 0.151304729494 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0105921091823 0.056905535591 19% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 50.2224549098 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.02 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.82 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 78.4519038076 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => 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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