Information technology is changing many aspects of our lives and now dominates our home, leisure and work activities. Do the advantages of information technology outweigh the drawbacks?
Computerised technology has become an integral part of our life and we have become increasingly dependent on technological devices. While there are advantages and disadvantages to this topic, I believe the positive aspects of technology take precedence over the drawbacks.
The main advantage of technological innovations is that it has allowed people to interact across geographic barriers and it has become a time-efficient and economical way of communication. For example, people can now connect virtually with their friends and family who live in other parts of the world through apps such as Facebook and Skype. In addition, before the advent of technology, accomplishing school projects or tasks used to be hectic, tedious and time-consuming. However, technological advances can aid students in performing their assignments and dissertations. To illustrate, students in the past had to browse several books at the library before reaching a certain answer or idea, whereas now students can enter the world wide web at any place or time and acquire the information they need instantaneously.
On the other hand, there are some disadvantages when it comes to modern technology. Firstly, people have now opted for a more sedentary lifestyle. For instance, instead of going outside, playing until dusk and exploring nature, most of today’s youth would rather stay inside and play the latest video game or watch their favourite show on the internet. Furthermore, electronic devices are known to be highly addictive and can have a negative impact on a child’s development. In other words, technology can lead to the loss of cognitive functions in children, and hence they will lack communication and social skills and be intimidated by social events.
I would therefore argue that although there are disadvantages regarding computerised technology, there are a plethora of advantages that outweigh the negative aspects. It facilitates worldwide communication and assists students in their tasks.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, regarding, so, therefore, whereas, while, for example, for instance, in addition, such as, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 10.4138276553 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1701.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 307.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54071661238 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24902851211 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618892508143 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6750351127 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.5 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9285714286 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3571428571 7.06120827912 175% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161486748793 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0476759957975 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474088686278 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0958167808391 0.151304729494 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0661441780283 0.056905535591 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => 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.