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 last couple of decades have seen a tremendous rise in technological advances around the world. Some might argue that the increase in technology has deterred the ability of humans to think for themselves. However, this notion is very superficial and further examination of the technology that surrounds us today provides compelling evidence to contradict this idea.
First and foremost, most of the technology that humans use today required some form of problem solving or critical thinking from a human brain. Technology, unfortunately, cannot be created from thin air; there is a distinct problem or set of problems that each new technology is intended to solve. For example, let’s examine the invention of the computer, perhaps the greatest invention of the 20th century. Computers are complex machines; each touch of the keyboard and click of a mouse requires human thought to program. Without humans, these small actions could not have been automated as such.
Furthermore, technology allows us to avoid mundane problems and focus our attention on more complex and pressing issues. We don’t have to worry about a message being sent to a loved one in time for their birthday; we have cell phones and email for that. Instead, we can worry about more complex issues that may require more than just a cell phone or computer to fix, such as curing cancer. The advances in technology today allow us to focus on these more pressing issues and avoid dwelling on other smaller issues.
Finally, every technological advance that we have seen and will see requires human thinking. Each new edition of Windows requires a human to compile issues that have arisen from a previous edition and program a fix. The same can be said about cell phones among other inventions. It would be nearly impossible to advance technology without having someone coming up with a problem to fix in the generation and another human going behind the scenes of technology and programming a fix to said issue.
All in all, technology has not hindered our ability to think for ourselves; on the contrary, technology has simplified life for humans to the extent that we are able to stop thinking about simple issues that plagued us several generations ago and can put our focus on advancing technology to fix more pressing issues. It’s not just humans that make technology; it’s those same technologies that shape the way we think and act today.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, well, for example, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2044.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 403.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07196029777 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67861378895 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521091811414 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4605854929 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.555555556 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3888888889 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193004196482 0.243740707755 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0642157481008 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543894944725 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118578544843 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0422123715042 0.0667264976115 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.