Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

The popularity of the computer has provided us with great convenience. But at the same time, it has also lead to an increased number of children addicted to playing computer games. Some would argue that it is necessary to prohibit children from playing them. While my opinion is quite the opposite: playing computer games can bring many benefits to children thus should not be prohibited.

Playing computer games can provide great entertainment for children. And the entertainment will help children to study more efficiently. That is exactly why a class is usually set to be about 40-minute long and a break is usually inserted between classes. Children, engaging in the recreational activities during this break, can then get rid of the tiredness caused by the class and become energetic again, which in turn assisted them to concentrate in the next class. Back to playing computer games, it is nothing more than another kind of creational activities like singing songs, reading novels or playing ball games. Therefore we can allow children playing them pretty much as we would allow children singing songs.

Besides the benefit of getting entertained, computer games also provide an opportunity for children to improve their response speed, because most games require fast response speed to play well. For example, players of a famous game called Dota need to perform their attack or cast their spells as soon as some certain circumstances occur. If they miss that moment, then at best they will miss some gold award and at worst their hero would just get killed. Driving by the desire to win, the children will have to respond quickly. In this way, their response speed is improved. Therefore, playing computer games can be used as a tool to train the ability to make a quick response.

Furthermore, learning can be integrated into games, making the learning more appealing and the learned knowledge more memorable. Take myself as an example. I have always loved playing computer games, especially games in English. Every time I played a game, I learned a lot of new words and sentences. And the appealing games always attract me so much that I can not forget any of the game or the words. These words always left a much deeper impression in my memory than those learned from the class. For example, the phrase "cast a spell" and "perform an attack" are two of them. Hence, playing computer games can be indeed an alternative and potentially a more effective way of learning.

Admittedly, addicting to computer games may take up the time that could have been used to study. However, there is no need to prohibit children from playing. As long as the time of playing is well controlled, it can be very beneficial to students in learning.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2310.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 463.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98920086393 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67862812482 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522678185745 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 705.6 618.680645161 114% => 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: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3573883306 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5555555556 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1481481481 20.6045352989 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.37037037037 5.45110844103 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287162555613 0.236089414692 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0878792820158 0.076458572812 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0675408603159 0.0737576698707 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184659283364 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0676182304964 0.0645574589148 105% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 11.7677419355 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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