Is the ability to read and write more important today than in the past? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Writing and reading have continuously developed during centuries, spreading all over the world. People use different dialects, signs and languages to communicate, which is highly useful in daily life. From my point of view, the ability to read and write is far more important than in the past, due to the fact that these form the base of education and because almost every action implies using them. I will explain my statement in the following essay.
First and foremost, reading and writing are important for every individual's future, because only by this they can have a successful career. In other words, being literate is essential in educational and working processes. Moreover, if a person cannot perform these two activities, he is unable to read, understand and sign a contract. Furthermore, illiterate persons are forced to accept low paid jobs, and according to international statistics, many people work without having any kind of legal commitment. Therefore, they are deprived of numerous rights such as health and retirement benefits, which affects negatively their existence. My neighbors experience is a compelling example. He did not feel well, but he refused to go to the hospital because he did not have an insurance or any other resources to pay. One day, he fainted and his brother called the ambulance, and when blood test came out he found that he had terminal cancer. After three days he died. Thus, reading and writing are vital for our future, from all the points of view.
Second, a great variety of daily activities are related to reading different panels, announcements, posters, schedules and so forth. In essence, people use this system while going to the shopping, using mass transportation, finding addresses, filling forms, requests, complainants, reading laws and regulations etc. Additionally, people live in a modern society which is regulated by thousands of rules that must be respected, and if someone breaks them he can not defend by saying that he is not able to read and that's why he did not know the rule. Consequently, such a behavior can cost his freedom. Not to mention that uneducated people struggle when they have to deal with outside world. For instance, one of my neighbor, who was 50, asked me to teach her reading because she had difficulties every time when she was going in the city. It took her around six months to study reading, but eventually she succeeded. Plus, I noticed a change in her attitude, as she seemed to be more confident.
To summarize, reading and writing are definitely more significant nowadays, than in the past centuries. This is because they are imperative for building a career and because they ease people's lives.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for instance, kind of, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2258.0 1977.66487455 114% => OK
No of words: 447.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0514541387 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80249541506 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597315436242 0.524837075471 114% => OK
syllable_count: 703.8 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3009289692 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0833333333 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.625 20.6045352989 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.875 5.45110844103 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16451713193 0.236089414692 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0430485190556 0.076458572812 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0637489069939 0.0737576698707 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119255411975 0.150856017488 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0597634028404 0.0645574589148 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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