In recent years, when a lot of video games are available on the market, it has been a controversial topic among parents whether let their sons and daughters spend time playing these games or not. Although it really depends on a lot of factors such as the type of the game, age of the children, and the amount of time spent for playing, I believe that there are some great benefits for playing video games which would be missed if they become forbidden for the young people. The reasons behind my disagreement against prohibiting juveniles from playing computer games are decribed below.
First of all, a lot of video games in different genres contain some sort of puzzles to be solved. Solving these problems needs logical thinking and concentration which will result in improving of creativity among children like what a math problem does. For example in a game called Portal, you have to keep in mind a lot factors that would create a path which you can cross and get to the next level. It needs a great sense of geometric patterns in order to find your way.
Furthermore, the majority of games have a realistic story which is connected to some historical events which has happend somwhere around the world. We can learn a lot about these historic facts and geography or culture of other civilizations by playing these games. The games that are related to World War II or ancient cities have a lot teach us about history as if we are reading books.
Moreover, there are a lot of stories and descriptions available through many of computers games containing a lot of vocabularies and expressions that are so useful for non-english children around the world that definitely would enhance their foreign language learing.
These reasons may not be tangible for the parents at first thought, however if they look at video games in some kind of educational medium, they may change their minds and stop thinking of playing video games as a waste of time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, moreover, really, so, for example, kind of, sort of, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => 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: 1623.0 1977.66487455 82% => OK
No of words: 339.0 407.700716846 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78761061947 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55046779339 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554572271386 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 618.680645161 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.6003584229 58% => 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: 28.0 20.1344086022 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.79110875 48.9658058833 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.25 100.406767564 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.25 20.6045352989 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.83333333333 5.45110844103 180% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202475480393 0.236089414692 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0756827471164 0.076458572812 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0440857430911 0.0737576698707 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11145037863 0.150856017488 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0514140464818 0.0645574589148 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 11.7677419355 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 58.1214874552 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 86.8835125448 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 10.002688172 185% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.0537634409 131% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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