The Illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
These days, there is an ongoing debate between people about literacy. While it is possible to claim that literacy is the ability to read and write, my view is that nowadays, literacy is ability to learn easily. In this essay, I will explain my point of view by analysing both sides of the arguments.
First of all, there are several reasons why literacy is more about learning. One of them is that the key to literacy is the ability to understand the spoken words and writings. Additionally, it can be argued that people who can read and write but cannot understand the meaning of speakers or writers are illiterates. It should also be taken into account that most of the people have a basic education but they cannot understand or learn.
Those who argued for literacy as reading and writing had a different opinion and said that it will actually be true. Firstly, it is claimed that people who can read or write are able to access and study anything that they intended to. Then, there are concerns about discrimination of illiterates and people’s behaviours on learning.
Although there are strong arguments on both sides of the case, my view is that literacy should be defined as the ability of learning and understanding. I would strongly suggest that schools should focus to improve learning skill of the children instead of focusing on the ability to read and write.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, so, then, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.5418719212 180% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 6.10837438424 180% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 8.36945812808 167% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 5.94088669951 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 26.0 20.9802955665 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 31.9359605911 94% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.75862068966 35% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1149.0 1207.87684729 95% => OK
No of words: 238.0 242.827586207 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82773109244 5.00649968141 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92775363542 3.92707691288 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62117867434 2.71678728327 96% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 139.433497537 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525210084034 0.580463131201 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 363.6 379.143842365 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.6157635468 195% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.65517241379 27% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.2280331367 50.4703680194 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.75 104.977214359 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 20.9669160288 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.25397266985 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222062187582 0.242375264174 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0775766787963 0.0925447433944 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0755853079305 0.071462118173 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13246488833 0.151781067708 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0658596126268 0.0609392437508 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 12.6369458128 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.1260098522 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.9458128079 87% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 11.5310837438 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.32886699507 90% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 55.0591133005 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 55.5555555556 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 50.0 Out of 90
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