New technologies have changed the way children spend their free time. Do advantages of this outweigh disadvantages?
It is true that children in today’s world spend more time playing with technological devices in leisure time. While this has several benefits, I believe that overall the negative consequences are more significant.
Admittedly, there are several advantages of playing with technological gadgets. The most obvious one is that technology has provided an attractive way for children to relax. Today, children are often under tremendous academic pressure to do well at school and to succeed in life. Some of them have to take part in extra classes as a result of this, and they are often drained of energy after a tiring day at school. Many children, therefore, find technological devices entertaining to temporarily escape the tedium of homework and assignments. Another benefit of playing with technological equipment is that it keeps children safer. The development of society is usually associated with potential dangers that lurk around when children play outdoors. Abduction, for example, is now a real threat in some emerging countries, and this explains why many parents are willing to allow children to play with mobile phones in their free time.
There are more disadvantages, however, of children spending time with technological devices. While some people correctly argue that children can hone computer skills by playing with new technologies, they are actually more vulnerable to serious health problems. The sedentary lifestyle that accompanies game addiction can lead to increased risks of obesity, heart attack and diabetes. Frequent exposure to the screen can also cause blurred vision and myopia, and the lingering images of games may prevent children from focusing on their study in the class. Apart from all of these, more time spent indoors means less time spent with the family and peers, making children socially isolated and lacking in communication skills.
In conclusion, although children may derive several benefits from playing with technological devices, I firmly believe that these advantages are outweighed by the above-mentioned drawbacks.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, apart from, for example, in conclusion, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1766.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 319.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53605015674 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91883367456 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608150470219 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 549.0 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.5562384646 49.4020404114 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.375 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9375 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8125 7.06120827912 111% => 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 : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303843587224 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0967295224444 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055656799586 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175295972913 0.151304729494 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0418501984484 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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