Some people think that the increasing use of computers and mobile phones nowadays has unwanted effects on young people’s reading and writing skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
A mere century ago, children used to learn and develop their skills using pen and paper. With the technological boom, the youth have started using the internet and gadgets to acquire knowledge. This has caused some part of the population to believe that computers and other hand-held devices have detrimental consequences on young adult's language learning skills. I partly disagree with this point of view.
On one hand, most young people spend a large amount of their time on smartphones and laptops. This has only affected the method they input and receive data to and from the devices. Internet and gizmos have changed writing to typing and reading have remained fairly the same. These days, the young read from electronic books instead of the physical books that they used to in the past. Moreover, e-books and dictionaries on mobile devices help youngsters with reading, pronunciation, origin of the words and other such aspects of the language. Digital equipment allows them access to numerous websites and applications to improve their language skills. Dictionary apps are particularly helpful for finding the origin and pronunciation of words. Furthermore, the size and portability of these items Thanks to their compact size permit users to read whenever and wherever they want to.
On the other hand, tablets and smartphones can be addictive in nature. Additionally, youngsters often use slangs and SMS lingo such as 'lol' with their peers. Therefore, some young people find it difficult to spell elementary words. Furthermore, most computer-based instruments contain spell checkers and auto-correct functionality enabled in them. This does not allow students to learn new words and understand where they might be going wrong.
In conclusion, modern portable devices such as cell phones have merits and demerits but it is to each individual to decide whether they want to benefit from them or allow them to destroy their language skills.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 332, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'adults'' or 'adult's'?
Suggestion: adults'; adult's
... have detrimental consequences on young adults language learning skills. I partly disa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, moreover, so, therefore, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 13.1623246493 30% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1645.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 310.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3064516129 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74318946658 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596774193548 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.4526725299 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.3888888889 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2222222222 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88888888889 7.06120827912 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153572704053 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0452428792006 0.084324248473 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0410799748154 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0876387680166 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0290002906244 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.0946893788 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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