A glance at the mode of modern education brings to light a topic which has several times provoked discussion, namely, whether today's parents are more involved in their children's education than before. Some might contend that with the development of public education system, parents' influence on children's education is fading. However, I would like to suggest that parents are increasingly getting involved in children's education in term of time and financial investment, and technological support.
First and foremost, it is undeniable that education is becoming more and more expensive. The tuition fee for both public and private universities have been increased in the past decades, for instance. As a result, students financially rely on their parents even in their twenties, and are less independent. What is more, the peer pressure for children is so heavy that the parents believe that the more their children learn the better. This is well-illustrated in my country, China, where many parents take their children to extra-curriculular courses and activities at weekends, which is a huge investment in both time and money. Thus, parents today are aware of letting their children learn new things and they are willing to raise the expenditure for education.
Secondly, the advent of technology also requires parents getting more involved in their children's education. Computers, for instance, has become common in most families, and sometimes students are asked to finish assignments using it. This is when parents are expected to provide guidance for those young children who are new to computers. Helping them with the basic technological skills can facilitate their studies and let them perform better in accomplish certain tasks, like searching for information online. As using new technologies has become an essential skill in schools and work place, schools usually do not offer specific step-to-step instructions, making parents an ideal source of help at home. Only by doing so can students quickly pick up knowledge on how to make use of new and more powerful tools.
Admittedly, there are some justifications by one who argues that nowadays home-teaching is becoming less common, and children share more freedom in making decisions like choosing their majors in university. Despite these, I still affirm that in a society where competition between people starts at a young age, more parents in general are concerned about their children's academic performance, and are also getting more strict than those parents decades ago. For instance, they would set goals for children's examination scores and overlook them finishing their homework.
For the aforementioned ground, I firmly believe that parents today are more involved in their children's education than before, and time and financial investment and technological support are two prime and conspicuous reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, still, thus, well, for instance, in general, as a result, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 8.0752688172 285% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2445.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 447.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46979865772 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92325518505 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534675615213 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 759.6 618.680645161 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.994623655914 201% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => 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: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5673600236 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.684210526 100.406767564 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5263157895 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52631578947 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.295280912814 0.236089414692 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107168362154 0.076458572812 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649986771411 0.0737576698707 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198293190824 0.150856017488 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502694888491 0.0645574589148 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 11.7677419355 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 58.1214874552 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 10.9000537634 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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