Is the ability to read and write more important today than in the past? Why or why
not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Illiteracy has become a big obstacle during last century and is still a problematic question with quick development of technology and automation. While some countries have taken various steps to eradicate it and focuses on strong foundation of education, on the other hand, many countries neglect this and still doesn’t care that much. Well, personally, I believe from my every day experience and observation, that ability to read and write is the most important. I have several reasons to substantiate my viewpoint, but I will mainly discuss two major reasons in the following paragraphs.
First, it is essential for a person to have at least the basic knowledge of reading and writing to survive in this society. While, in the past, some people could live without the knowledge of written language, but now it is nearly impossible. The way of living has changed so much that an illiterate person cannot be a part of the nation, especially in the developed countries. Without having an ability to read or understand your bills, taxes, and other documents, you would have to deal with lots of problems. Even, you can go nowhere by yourself without reading the maps and road signs. Uneducated people have to relay on the others for help.
Second, nowadays, most of the jobs require reading and writing skills and the tendency that these skills will be more important has increased. In fact, due to development of technology, more jobs of Labor market are for literate people. For example, work on land and factories doesn’t require a number of people because most of the work is done by machines and gadgets. Hence, people who can read the instruction well and operate the machines are hired. My mother’s recent experience is a good case in point, her office made it mandatory to use computers for maintain files but as she doesn’t know to operate computer she was compelled to leave her job.
In conclusion, the scariest part of an illiterate person’s life is that he can’t do all the things on his own, he has to depend on others for assistance. And not only he will face difficulty doing simple tasks, but also he will be of no use to nation as a productive and useful individual. Hence, due to the aforementioned reasons, the ability of reading and writing is the most important.
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- Decreasing number of literature readers 76
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, second, so, still, well, while, as to, at least, for example, in conclusion, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1906.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 392.0 407.700716846 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86224489796 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74736252304 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553571428571 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.8794277175 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.888888889 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7777777778 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 5.45110844103 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139706962813 0.236089414692 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0436458220974 0.076458572812 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.042389312686 0.0737576698707 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0790985265202 0.150856017488 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00407937992921 0.0645574589148 6% => 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: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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