Claim: Young people's tendency to make extensive use of portable devices like
smartphones and tablets has hurt their development of social skills.
Reason: These devices encourage users to form artificial personalities and
relationships online rather than fully and honestly engaging with the people around
them.
Here the author is claiming that the extensive use of portable devices like smartphones and tablets has hurt their development of social skills. However, one cannot completely conclude the extent of truthfulness and practicality of the claim. Smart, portable devices have proved to be useful to the younger generation in many ways. For example, the easy and quicker availability of internet on these devices have helped numerous youngsters to develop their speaking, writing and listening skills as well as various other personality traits. Therefore, it is more important to consider the wide spectrum of possibilities when it comes to importance and usefulness of the smart devices.
The author is reasoning that these devices has encouraged the formation of artificial personalities. But the development of such personalities do not necessarily have a negative impact. Perhaps, an individual can able to change his/her existing mindset and can successfully adopt new positive traits by developing the "artificial personalities". For example, a kid sitting in an remote village with a smart phone in his/her hand might be able to learn urbane traits, which in his/her case would not be possible through honest engagement with poeple around.
Also, the lack of social skills in any particular individual might not be blamed solely to the smart devices. There are various reasons and circumstances that affect the social skill development of any individual, especially the younger ones. Perhaps family, friends, neighbourhood, and even the society might affect the development of social skills.
Despite the usefulness, one must not forget the side of the coin. Futher elaborating, one must not forget the disadvantages of these "smart" devices. The reason author mentioned for the claim might be true in many cases. There no doubt that the smart gadgets are successfull in developing an artificial environment around the people, which ultimately leads to the unwanted generation of artificial personality. The incresing engagement of young poeple in online chats and conferencing might be considered as one of the reasons of their lacking social skills. This can eventually lead to the lack of interest in genuine social interactions among the youth. For example, a student might not be interseted to talk to the teacher face-to-face, instead would prefer to message the teacher. This will not only diminish the speaking skills, but can also lead to development of fear of public speaking.
These young people with smart gadgets in their hand are connecting more with poeple far away from them, then the people around them. These youngsters are, perhaps, losing their touch with the people around them. Real, face-to-face, "offline" talks are rarely seen in the younger people nowadays. It is true that one cannot develop the social skills without interacting with the people around them. Online platforms might help an individual to increase their social skills upto a certain extent. But without proper interactions, one cannot gain the required social skills.
From the above mentioned reasonings and arguments one can conclude that the increasing use of smart devices is indeed one of the reasons for lack of social skills in the younger generation. However, as perviously stated, one must not solely blame the smart gadgets of lack of such skills. There are, infact, many arguments that completely justify the positive imapct of smart gadgets among young people.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 387, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...es'. For example, a kid sitting in an remote village with a smart phone in hi...
^^
Line 5, column 110, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
...re with poeple far away from them, then the people around them. These youngsters are, perhaps, losing ...
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Line 5, column 189, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
...s are, perhaps, losing their touch with the people around them. Real, face-to-face, 'offline&apos...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 385, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
... social skills without interacting with the people around them. Online platforms might help an individ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 405, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ct of smart gadgets among young people.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, for example, no doubt, as well as, in many cases, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2961.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 545.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43302752294 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0082254042 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.460550458716 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 918.9 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9660379009 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.103448276 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7931034483 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8275862069 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276692268763 0.243740707755 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804933751632 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0881154723399 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149151119204 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760183261564 0.0667264976115 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 387, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...es'. For example, a kid sitting in an remote village with a smart phone in hi...
^^
Line 5, column 110, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
...re with poeple far away from them, then the people around them. These youngsters are, perhaps, losing ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 189, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
...s are, perhaps, losing their touch with the people around them. Real, face-to-face, 'offline&apos...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 385, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
... social skills without interacting with the people around them. Online platforms might help an individ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 405, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ct of smart gadgets among young people.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, for example, no doubt, as well as, in many cases, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2961.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 545.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43302752294 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0082254042 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.460550458716 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 918.9 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9660379009 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.103448276 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7931034483 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8275862069 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276692268763 0.243740707755 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804933751632 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0881154723399 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149151119204 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760183261564 0.0667264976115 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.