An increasing number of schools provide tablets and laptop computers for students to use in school, replacing books and other printed materials like exams and assignments.What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?

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An increasing number of schools provide tablets and laptop computers for students to use in school, replacing books and other printed materials like exams and assignments.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?

It is very common now for schools to replace books and other paper materials by providing students with tablets and notebooks to be used in class. This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this trend.

One of the important advantages is by using electronic devices schools are reducing the quantity of paper used which is essential for the environment. It is a well-known fact that paper is made of trees and the production of paper causes deforestation. Therefore, by replacing paper materials with electronic devices schools contribute their part in improving the environmental situation. Additionally, by switching to computers, students will not have to carry extremely heavy backpacks with books to school every day. For example, in China, a students' school bag on an average weight of 8-10 kilograms. This king of weight has substantial pressure on a child's spine, but this problem will be eliminated if children will use computers.

However, spending extensive hours in front of the screen can cause health issues, such as sight impairment. A large body of research has proved that the light from computer screens can damage children's vision. Furthermore, using computers in classes can easily distract children. Youngsters can lose focus and start researching on computer materials that are not relevant, which in the future can have a negative impact on their grades.

In conclusion, by using computers and tablets instead of books schools can play a significant part in solving deforestation problems and reduce the weight of students' school bags. However, it can simultaneously be the cause of visual impairment problems in children and the loss of focus in classes.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, well, for example, in conclusion, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1435.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 270.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31481481481 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96726770626 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 428.4 506.74238477 85% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.6102702246 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.5 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2857142857 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21428571429 7.06120827912 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.32317214903 0.244688304435 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11199028056 0.084324248473 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0976564728212 0.0667982634062 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219787287859 0.151304729494 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.133152600656 0.056905535591 234% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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