Fewer schools are requiring children to learn and improve their handwriting skills. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of this trend?
With the unimaginable development of modern technology, handwriting skills have gradually become non-compulsory as the electronic devices such as tablets,laptop, smartphones have more or less superseded their role in today’s schools. Despite all the benefits they bring, handwriting still plays a crucial role in the study programme of students.
On the one hand, less environmental damages are why handwriting is considered obsolete. Since the papers used for taking note all come from trees, it is estimated that about 2 billion tree are cut down annually to produce enough materials for textbooks and other kinds needed for handwriting. As a result, deforestation and global warming are exacerbated instead of being reduced. In addition, the assistance of electronic devices help students share the burden of bringing such a heavy backpack to school everyday when they just have to carry a laptop or a small tablet with an electronic pen along to write down all the formulas and essays for every lesson.
On the other hand, it is impossible to eliminate handwriting skills from a standard programme as it helps the brain function better. Through writing by hand, students can retain memory better than typing or just touching a screen, thus giving an excellent performance in examinations. In addition, handwriting skills are believed to be a powerful stimuli that boosts the creativity in children. With a brain full of curiosities and eagerness about everything, children often sketch or draft what they are thinking or imagining onto a paper that will nurture their visual and imaginative skills later in life. Studies have also proved a connection between individuals’ handwriting and their own characteristics. For example, people whose handwriting is neat and well-organised are usually more meticulous and sophisticated than those with a disorderly script.
To summarize, while there are many minuses of handwriting, it is still considered as the best way for students to acquire knowledge.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 154, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , laptop
...s the electronic devices such as tablets,laptop, smartphones have more or less supersed...
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Line 2, column 506, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ringing such a heavy backpack to school everyday when they just have to carry a laptop o...
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Line 3, column 348, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'stimulus'?
Suggestion: stimulus
...ng skills are believed to be a powerful stimuli that boosts the creativity in children....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, still, thus, well, while, for example, in addition, such as, as a result, more or less, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1696.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 312.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4358974359 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15305780224 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608974358974 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.4307611293 49.4020404114 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.461538462 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.15384615385 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More 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: 0.123583474683 0.244688304435 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0465303721171 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0424656974177 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0644724312485 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0558456273388 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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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.