As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The claim suggests that the ability for people to think for themselves will deteriorate as the reliance on technology increases. However, just as the pen not a writer but rather the a writer's tool, technologies such as the handheld calculator and the modern day computer are tools to augment human capabilities and efficiency rather than moderate thinking.
For example, we can consider the progress of humanity's mean of transportion. Imagine the time wasted spent walking or riding horseback for traveling far distances with the presence of planes and cars. Has humanity's ability to think been lessened by these inventions of the modern age? That is hardly the case. Not only do these vehicles allow for human beings to be efficient with their travel and thus free time for mental activities, these technologies also generate new problems of this day and age, such as global warming and environmental pollution. With these problems brought forth by technology calls forth new ideas to solve them.
Additionally, the introduction of the world wide web has allowed for people to collaborate to tackle far more challenging academic problems than one person could handle themselves. Scientific discoveries these days are often attributed to several authors are done so with the means for collaboration via technologies such as phone calls, email and video software. Journal articles that were only accessible to a few are now digitized to be shared amongst millions. Rather than reducing our ability to think, technology has allowed us to access the opinions and expertise of those from around the world to augment our own mental capabilities. To paraphrase the words of Sir Issac Newton, we stand atop the shoulders of giants.
Some may argue the advent of technologies such as calculators has reduced the capability to think mathematically, bemoaning that future generations will not know how to sort through simple additions and multiplications. In reality, this is far from the case. For example, while everyone of this day and age has access to a calculator, schoolteachers from all grade levels still often require their students to perform their calculations without the aid of these devices to ensure the development of logical thinking as well as prevent cheating.
Meanwhile, after polishing these abilities in school, professional mathematicians, engineers, and scientists use calculators to perform trivially-simple yet exhaustively-time-consuming calculations. It is to society's benefit that our best and brightest focus their resources on pursuing the mathematical quandries of our age rather than on performing the arduous labor of solving calculations by hand. As such, technology has not lessened the ability of human thinking at all; rather it is an impetus for human thinking to be unencumbered while delving further into more demanding academic pursuits.
Thus the statement that technology will bring forth the deterioration of human thinking is far from the truth. Technology has instead increased human efficiency while creating more mental challenges for humanity to tackle, while also increasing the means and scope for humanity to collaborate.
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- As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. 83
- As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 179, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: the; a
...just as the pen not a writer but rather the a writers tool, technologies such as the ...
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Line 7, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...op the shoulders of giants. Some may argue the advent of technologies such as calc...
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Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...o more demanding academic pursuits. Thus the statement that technology will brin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, thus, well, while, as to, for example, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2689.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 493.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45436105477 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20040128281 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541582150101 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 841.5 704.065955056 120% => 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: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.3957398367 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.047619048 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4761904762 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251895008981 0.243740707755 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.078343056059 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072090211053 0.0758088955206 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145675174786 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0497158666532 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 100.480337079 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.