Should schools stop teaching handwriting entirely and focus instead on their typing skills? Is handwriting no longer relevant?
Recently, whether schools should stop teaching handwriting entirely and focus on typing skills has become a heated topic. This is because some people believe that handwriting is no longer relevant to children, hence digital devices are more likely to be used in the future. In this essay I will elaborate on both sides of the argument and explain why both typing and handwriting skills are equally important and so should both be taught at school.
Stopping teaching handwriting at school is an extreme, emotional action to take even though we often use typing skills rather than handwriting skills these days. Handwriting is an important skill in our daily life: for example, handwriting allows us to drop a note to our family member or neighbour. It is a fast and efficient communication method. Also, tidy and clear handwriting helps to reduce avoidable mistakes caused by miscommunication.
Despite handwriting skills being important in our daily communication, a fast speed and high accuracy with typing skills are also playing critical role as well. Digital devices are increasingly being used in writing emails and essays. Essentially, there is an undeniable argument that children are spending more time typing on keyboards than handwriting during their educational period. Therefore, typing skills are essential for their education purposes.
In conclusion, as per the points mentioned above, I am inclined to think that both handwriting and typing skills are important to children for their education and communication purposes. Neither skills should be undervalued their learning process. Both skills should taught from an early age for children's well-being.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, so, therefore, well, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.5418719212 180% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 6.10837438424 82% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 8.36945812808 131% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 5.94088669951 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 20.9802955665 86% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 31.9359605911 81% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1420.0 1207.87684729 118% => OK
No of words: 259.0 242.827586207 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48262548263 5.00649968141 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 3.92707691288 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93277237933 2.71678728327 108% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 139.433497537 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583011583012 0.580463131201 100% => OK
syllable_count: 428.4 379.143842365 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.5024630542 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.9261274622 50.4703680194 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.428571429 104.977214359 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 20.9669160288 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 7.25397266985 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 2.75862068966 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.469653018273 0.242375264174 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.158436284299 0.0925447433944 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118874300479 0.071462118173 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.288929425669 0.151781067708 190% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0917101414396 0.0609392437508 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 12.6369458128 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.1260098522 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.9458128079 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 11.5310837438 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32886699507 103% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 55.0591133005 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.94827586207 136% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.3980295567 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => 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.