Some people think that using mobile phones and computers has a negative effect on young people's reading and writing skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
A new generation of youngsters has unprecedented access to modern electronic devices such as smartphones and computers. Many people believe that these digital devices have degraded young people’s reading and writing competence. This essay partly agrees with the statement and will argue why technologies can promote young generation’s reading skills while doing little help in supporting their writing skills.
On the one hand, digital devices have become a modern means for contemporary people to acquire information and knowledge, which during the learning process people’s reading capacity can be substantially improved. For example, many young people read news on their smartphones when they commute to work, learning and accumulating new vocabularies on a daily basis. In addition, many effective digital dictionaries are just available online for people to look up new words or pronunciations while they are reading articles. Therefore, modern technologies can be a practical tool to enhance people’s vocabulary acquisition.
On the other hand, young generations tend to foster a lazy habit when using these technologies to compose texts such as emails or essays. Owing to convenient functions form software programme such as Microsoft Word auto-correction and grammar checking, people care less and less about their spelling, grammar, vocabulary use and cohesion when they type the words and sentences into the computer, which as a result had lessened their writing competence in a long run. Given the above, writing skills cannot be properly sharpened due to the convenience of technologies.
In conclusion, this essay argued that although modern digital platforms support young people’s learning in reading, they are a negative contributor in strengthening people’s performance in writing.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 209, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g people's performance in writing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, look, so, then, therefore, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 41.998997996 67% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1572.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.86567164179 5.12529762239 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24880669355 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.59328358209 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 506.74238477 94% => 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: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 64.3682586938 49.4020404114 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.909090909 106.682146367 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3636363636 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8181818182 7.06120827912 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23828492716 0.244688304435 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0961130121084 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593184948234 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150886285397 0.151304729494 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433512579366 0.056905535591 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 13.0946893788 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 50.2224549098 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.06 12.4159519038 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.95 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => 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: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.