New technologies have changed the way children spend their free time. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
Nowadays, leisure activities have been replaced by advanced technologies, as we can see that more children spending most of their free time on watching a video, playing online games, and reading the e-book. While new technologies can bring some immediate benefits, I am convinced that its drawbacks have more effects on children’s life.
Looking first at the advantages, it would seem that children would gain many advantages from technology. Firstly, technology offers much updated and upcoming information which would enhance children’s knowledge. To illustrate, when children read the e-books, they would develop their reading skills and also learn many things from the information that they read immediately. Secondly, technology is the advanced way of entertainment for children. This ranges from online games to social media. For instance, kids can play online games to entertain them when they have much time in case of the bad weather outside their home.
Moving to disadvantages, the first probable negative effect from technology is related to health, ranging from damaged eye-sight to obesity. The second effect is that it may reduce children’s interested in the academic subject. If children became seriously addicted to the games and social network, they would lose their attention in the classroom. The last possible drawback is lack of socialization. The reason given for this is that they would spend much time using computer or mobile phone and neglect some outdoor activities, which make them not to interact with their peers and friends.
In summary, it is logical to conclude that disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages. This is because not only would technology obtain adverse effects on health and academic performance for children, but would reduce their social skills as well.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, for instance, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1565.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 283.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53003533569 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.907545378 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586572438163 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 468.9 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.0051848865 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.333333333 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8666666667 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.73333333333 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290279850778 0.244688304435 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0933459490947 0.084324248473 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646156561998 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182449408557 0.151304729494 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444158158468 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.79 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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