New technologies have changed the way children spend their free time. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
The innovation of modern technologies has changed the leisure activities of children. While I accept that this revolutionary change can sometimes have a positive effect on children, I believe that they are more likely to have a harmful impact.
On the one hand, enjoying new technologies can be both entertaining and educational for children. They can play video games or speak with friends in their spare time simply by using a mobile phone or laptop which are often more exciting and engaging than normal activities past-times. In addition, children can enjoy various types of tasks solving games in the internet, and these games encourage imagination and creativity, as well as concentration, logical thinking and problem solving. A recent discussion on TED Talks shows that puzzle games such as Angry Birds or Cut the Rope could enhance the children analytical skills.
However, I would argue that the drawbacks of this situation outweigh the benefits. Enjoying technologies in free time can discourage children from active or creative works and lead to sedentary lifestyle. For example, a video game offers constantly scores, new targets and frequent rewards to keep users playing and children become addicted to achieve them. This could always engage them in gaming at home rather than other energetic tasks. The rise in obesity in recent years has also been linked in part to this lifestyle. Another downside is that children occupy their free time with enjoying TV or playing video games. Hence, parents and their offspring have less chance to intimate with each other.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the potential dangers of enjoying technologies are more significant than the possible benefits.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, so, well, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1441.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25912408759 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73562240115 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.624087591241 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 506.74238477 88% => 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: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.8128914616 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.928571429 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35714285714 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268469157461 0.244688304435 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0923183286466 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.05585465249 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154433922091 0.151304729494 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.086649821277 0.056905535591 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => 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: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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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.