Illiteracy continues to be a concern for many countries in the world today. What are the causes of illiteracy in the modern world, and what effects does it have on the people concerned and on society as a whole?
Illiteracy is certainly a topical issue among the majority of countries in the contemporary world, which can have detrimental consequences on society and the individuals affected. There seem to be two main causes and a number of damaging effects, which will be analyzed now.
Perhaps the main cause is difficult living conditions that are faced with many people and families. This is because people living not only below the poverty level but also no-go areas that violence is taken place frequently are more likely to leave schools in order to be safe or make money for their poverty-stricken families. Take families dwelling in suburbs as a notable example, which statistics show the illiteracy rates are tripled in such vulnerable families compared to their counterparts living in major cities. A further well-known cause can be parents with little schooling. This leads their children to be loath to pursue their schooling due to a lack of a literate role model.
The effects of this problem on individuals can be quite devastating. Firstly, damaged self-esteem is experienced because of their inability to write and read which are basic life skills in the modern world. This can be especially damaging for children who often tend to compare themselves with their peers with much more formal schooling. A further widely observed impact is experiencing poor economic conditions as a direct result of reduced job opportunities and entering into lower-quality jobs. In Iran, for instance, those with little schooling can be found considerably in lower-level paid jobs such as sales and driving jobs. The consequences of illiteracy on society can also be quite serious. Struggling with understanding societal issues labeled as a political and economic illiterate is perceived as a major effect that can lead society to be static rather than dynamic.
Overall, it would appear that living in abject poverty and extremely violence areas as well as having parents with low literacy skills are more likely to be the main causes of illiteracy, and effects are felt in terms of unemployment, low self-esteem, and lower-quality jobs.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, so, well, for instance, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 13.1623246493 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1795.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26392961877 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93435428447 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551319648094 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 573.3 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => 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: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.6934390588 49.4020404114 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.666666667 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7333333333 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.93333333333 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.67935871743 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.9879759519 326% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188518204295 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.070309951163 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455220847198 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123237542538 0.151304729494 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460988076483 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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