When a country develops its technology, the traditional skills and ways of life die out. It is pointless to try and keep them alive.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Nowadays, technological advances and their rapid and wide applications are having a significant impact on a nation’s traditional skills and ways of life. Some argue that such impact is so extraordinary that it would make conventional skills and life styles obsolete. However, I believe they would continue to thrive by providing alternatives to modern ways of life, and innovative ideas for modern technologies.
First of all, traditional skills and ways of life are becoming an alternative solution to the problems caused by “mainstreamed” ways of life which are greatly influenced by modern technologies. For instance, a cozy restaurant where traditional, home-brewed beer is served, offers another experience to people who are bored with branded beers that have the same flavor and come out of mass production with new technologies. It is in such a venue where traditional skills are preserved, people become relaxed and educated. Providing diversity and thus enriching modern ways of life, such traditional skills and ways of life would continue to have their place.
Furthermore, conventional skills provide innovative ideas to the development of modern technologies. For example, sparkled by how the word “Love” is traditionally knitted into a sweater by some ethnic minority women in some parts of Asia, some business managers from textile industry have developed some production lines by applying the traditional skills to Computer-Aided Designs (CAD). The products have boosted the companies’ sales which in turn have increased their investment in preserving traditional skills for further developing their technologies.
To conclude, traditional skills and life styles are increasingly becoming a useful alternative to the homogeneity brought by global applications of modern technologies. However, the evolution of technologies is a selection process, whereby some would become obsolete, but there is no doubt that some would thrive when their roles are appreciated.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'thus', 'as for', 'as to', 'for example', 'for instance', 'no doubt', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.270348837209 0.247107183377 109% => OK
Verbs: 0.162790697674 0.155533422707 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110465116279 0.0946595960268 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0232558139535 0.0501214627716 46% => Some adverbs wanted.
Pronouns: 0.0261627906977 0.0437548338989 60% => OK
Prepositions: 0.104651162791 0.122226691241 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0668604651163 0.0403226058552 166% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.46534171871 2.80594681477 123% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0261627906977 0.0326793684256 80% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.078488372093 0.0861772015684 91% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0145348837209 0.021408717616 68% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0261627906977 0.011925033212 219% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2011.0 1933.35771543 104% => OK
No of words: 297.0 316.048096192 94% => OK
Chars per words: 6.77104377104 6.12580529183 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20517956788 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.430976430976 0.374742101984 115% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.319865319865 0.28420135186 113% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.26936026936 0.203846283523 132% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.208754208754 0.137316102897 152% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.46534171871 2.80594681477 123% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.037074148 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521885521886 0.56093040696 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 52.646761844 60.7387585426 87% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0891783567 75% => OK
Sentence length: 24.75 20.7743622355 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3973932178 49.517814964 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 167.583333333 127.492653851 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.75 20.7743622355 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.08333333333 0.814263465372 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 56.7365319865 49.1944974215 115% => OK
Elegance: 2.08219178082 1.69124875643 123% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.320576689316 0.332605444948 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.125803336808 0.102741220458 122% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0606603084022 0.0668466124924 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.588880418537 0.534860350844 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.108766025563 0.148594505496 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15887595003 0.134430193775 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062684383289 0.0742795772207 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.358416042774 0.324371583561 110% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.103793437547 0.0638462369009 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231221666274 0.228012699653 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0745493159872 0.058150111329 128% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.68436873747 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.41683366733 59% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 5.90881763527 102% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.5751503006 155% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 1.9629258517 102% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 10.4468937876 115% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.