Some children spend hours every day on their smartphones. Why is this the case? Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
It is undeniable that after technologies, such as smartphones and the internet, have been discovered, our lives have changed dramatically. This change has negatively impacted many young children as well, making them glued to their phones for long hours every day. While there are a couple of core reasons why this is happening, I believe this is a change for the worse overall.
To begin with, two of the main reasons why this is the case are a lack of parental control and addictive content on social media platforms. Regarding the former, many parents are spending less quality time with their children these days, being busy at work to earn a living to meet their daily basic needs. This, in turn, can create an environment for children to do anything they want, and most of them prefer using cell phones usually. As for the latter, content creators on social media platforms are producing increasingly engaging videos that can captivate users for extended periods. TikTok and Instagram are prime examples, as they host a plethora of short, fascinating videos that seldom fail to attract viewers.
I believe this is a negative development as it can cause several issues. Firstly, staring at a small screen of a mobile phone for extended hours often brings about eye strain, which can lead to a condition known as “digital eye strain”. The consequences resulting from this may include headaches, blurred vision, and difficulty focusing on distant objects. Secondly, it is phones that can result in reduced attention and productivity when they are used excessively. School children, in this case, are those who gain many disadvantages. This is because when they have less attention to their lessons at school, they may become ignorant in the long run. Therefore, such drawbacks are likely to make this trend negative.
To conclude, insufficient control by parents and attractive content are the main reasons why children spend much time on their phones. In my view, this is a negative development as this usually causes health problems and distractions at school.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, as for, such as, in my view, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1738.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 340.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11176470588 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71921905133 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594117647059 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3540610419 49.4020404114 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.235294118 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29411764706 7.06120827912 103% => 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 : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.33398254191 0.244688304435 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10559090195 0.084324248473 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0791794533269 0.0667982634062 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214462421782 0.151304729494 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0480146165942 0.056905535591 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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