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.
For the last couple of decades, computer games have become increasingly popular. Indeed, its popularity is greater among the younger generations and the preocupation over its effects, as they are on highly delicate stages of development, has become a daily subject. In particular, some people think that allowing children to play computers is a waste of time and may say that playing computer games don’t allow children to develop adequately in vital aspects such as physical, social and academical.
As far as I know, there has been an increase in violence and antisocial behaviors coming from children and adolescents that spent much of their time playing computer games. Because computers can’t mimic human interaction, children that play too long with computers instead of playing with other children may suffer a detriment on their social development; which, moreover, could have greater consequences into adulthood.
In the same way, spending too much time playing computer games could also have negative effects in the physical development of the youngsters, because staying sitted on a chair does not do much for building muscles or improving the posture. Particularly, when I was little, our pediatrician always told our mother that kids should practice sports and not spend too much time sitting watching tv or playing with the computer. In fact, his arguments were that, by practicing some sports or just playing in the garden with friends and neigbours, kids could develop better not only physically, but also socially.
Furthermore, during childhood is the period when people learn the most. What could be learned from sitting on a computer all day long, playing computer games? Time wasted on that could be spent developping life skills, studying, learning a new languaje, discipline or how to play an instrument. It doesn’t necessarily has to be studying, even from playing with another children, kids could live invaluable experiences!
In conclusion, I must say that children should not be allowed to play computer games for extended periods of time, as I believe that it is truly a waste of time and does not do anything for the kid’s development in areas such as social, physical and academical, which are critical development areas. In fact, I believe that when a child is allowed to play computer games without control, it could have negative consecuences over the years.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, as to, in conclusion, in fact, in particular, such as, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2033.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 386.0 407.700716846 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26683937824 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84149182897 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533678756477 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 612.0 618.680645161 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.994623655914 201% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => 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: 29.0 20.1344086022 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 92.3767690257 48.9658058833 189% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.384615385 100.406767564 156% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6923076923 20.6045352989 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 5.45110844103 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.406072464012 0.236089414692 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153788683485 0.076458572812 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0998332322583 0.0737576698707 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250214399317 0.150856017488 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432827918049 0.0645574589148 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 11.7677419355 155% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 58.1214874552 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 10.1575268817 144% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.88 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.002688172 150% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.0537634409 135% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.