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 a less-discussed problem in our modern world, but one which may have a drastic effect on individuals and the community. There seem to be two main causes and a number of effects, which we will discuss here.
Possibly the main contributing factor to illiteracy can be family poverty. Not only does this factor seem to be the root cause of depriving children of education, but it may also lead to family instability in all most disadvantaged families. Therefore, in these families, pursuing academic education is virtually prohibitive practice. A further well-known cause appear to be low parental education. Illiterate parents are less likely to send their children to school, meaning that they do not care about their children educational future. For example, an overwhelming majority of children who live in slum areas, their parents are illiterate, and their children have been left with little alternative. Thus, these two causes can easily affect illiteracy in our today world.
The effect of this problem on people and society can be drastically serious. In the term of individuals, it may lead to low self-esteem. Such people seem to face numerous problems in their day-to-day life just because of their lack of ability to read, and not only are they able to tackle them solely, they virtually depend on others. This situation appears to drastically reduce their confidence to deal with the problems on their own. As far as the impact of illiteracy on the community is concerned, these members of society can put numerous burdens on government, mainly in terms of financial and social issues. For example, in many developing and less developed countries, like Iran and Afghanistan, a vast majority of their budgets seem to be allocated to combatting crimes which back to illiteracy. As can be seen, a lack of ability can adversely affect people and their community as well.
Overall, family poverty and parents’ lack of education seem to be the main causes, and they can deteriorate individuals’ self-confidence and put a lot of financial and social pressure on states.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1769.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 342.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17251461988 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00308768067 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526315789474 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 567.9 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.778054113 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.058823529 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1176470588 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41176470588 7.06120827912 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => 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: 0.174719770989 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644277167075 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630602695485 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108562604157 0.151304729494 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592181859058 0.056905535591 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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