“The illiterates of the 21st century are not those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn”- Alvin Toffler. Explain the statement and do you agree or not?
The idea of determining one’s capability to read and write is widely debated with many academics claiming that people who cannot learn are the real illiterates. Perhaps, I also believe that the real ability of a person depends on his learnings, and not his reading and writing capabilities. This essay will elaborate my stance.
To begin with, there are various arguments in favour of this notion and the most conspicuous one is that a person’s academic skills depends on his learning ability and not just mere ability to read and write. In addition, learning is a life-long process and a person assesses himself from his past mistakes, self-analysis and experience. Hence, without gaining experience and ability to reassess himself, a person become crippled, dependent and ineffective.
Another key justification for upholding this notion is that by learning throughout his life, a person gains the experience and learns from his mistakes. Moreover, this prepares him to face the real-life challenges and makes him stand out in the real world. For example, a person who puts the use of his reasoning and analytical skills in practice is more versed than a person who just the knows the theoretical aspects. Thus, learning is a never-ending process and equips a person to become effective in his life.
In the views of the arguments outlined above, the impact of the ability to read and write is prominent in a person’s life although literacy is more effective when it comes with learning and enlighten a person’s life.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, moreover, so, thus, for example, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.5418719212 95% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 6.10837438424 33% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 8.36945812808 191% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 20.9802955665 110% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 31.9359605911 103% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.75862068966 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1298.0 1207.87684729 107% => OK
No of words: 251.0 242.827586207 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17131474104 5.00649968141 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 3.92707691288 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9424569745 2.71678728327 108% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 139.433497537 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533864541833 0.580463131201 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 414.0 379.143842365 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 5.0 1.56157635468 320% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3987812185 50.4703680194 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.0 104.977214359 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8181818182 20.9669160288 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.90909090909 7.25397266985 95% => 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 : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 2.91625615764 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151942736394 0.242375264174 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0638040046925 0.0925447433944 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695061333406 0.071462118173 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114381142343 0.151781067708 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0485027939733 0.0609392437508 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 12.6369458128 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.1260098522 93% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 11.5310837438 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.32886699507 106% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 55.0591133005 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.