Witnessed by the rapid progress of technology, e-readers are no longer considered as something very rare and strange, but are widely accepted and become popular especially among the young people. And meanwhile, there is a curiosity about whether the e-book will take the position of printed books, and students from that would no longer use the printed books in twenty years. Despite the amazing spreading speed of e-books, I still believe that the printed will not completely disappear in this short period of time.
It is quite common for some people to claim the e-books are cheaper than paper books when talking about the price problem. However, the rapid updating and the hardness of maintenance make them do not cheap at all. Every year, the Apple Company, the Amazon Company, or even the Huawei Company would come up with a new generation of products. These prompt students to frequently update their equipment, or if some new functions of new generation are used in the class or homework, they may find it hard to keep up with the teachers. Also, the e-books on the e-readers are not cheap at all, especially for some e-books that has additional functions.
When we are talking about the prices, another factor can hardly remain unseen, which is the hardness of maintenance. Paper books do not need much carefulness. You can throw them to any places without worrying about the potential damages on the glass screen. What’s more, using printed books, never would you care about the battery power thing, which is a vital problem to concern about with e-readers.
Another essential reason is that 20 years maybe too short to enable this tremendous change. When laptops are invented in 1990s, it still costs them 20 years or more to conquer the world, and the desktops are not replaced at all! Even if e-readers would completely take the position of printed books in the end, 20 years is far from enough. Not to mention the e-books are still not widely introduced in some developing countries with low-level technology.
In nutshell, based on the previous discussions, I do not believe twenty years is enough for the e-books to erase the printed books from students’ usage. It may either needs more time or will not happen at all.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 502, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... not completely disappear in this short period of time. It is quite common for some people...
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Line 7, column 119, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 1990s'.
Suggestion: in the 1990s
...ndous change. When laptops are invented in 1990s, it still costs them 20 years or more t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, while, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 43.0788530466 49% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1879.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 380.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94473684211 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50735621324 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 212.727598566 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534210526316 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 618.680645161 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4313573019 48.9658058833 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.529411765 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3529411765 20.6045352989 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.52941176471 5.45110844103 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 11.8709677419 25% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.297071353102 0.236089414692 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0887982581078 0.076458572812 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093398051058 0.0737576698707 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175377980591 0.150856017488 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0766315392753 0.0645574589148 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 86.8835125448 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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