Task 2: Today, some families are not eating meals together on a daily basis. Why? Is this a positive or negative trend?
It is true that these days, many families are no longer spending regular time having a meal together. While this tendency can be attributed to several factors, I firmly believe that it can lead to several disadvantageous consequences for the family members.
There are two primary reasons to explain why having mealtimes together is disappearing among several households. Firstly, due to the socio-economic change, conventional family arrangements have witnessed a significant modification. For example, urban dwellers tend to form single-parent households or dual-income families, in which both parents have to allocate most of their time in the workplace to earn a living. In these circumstances, traditional family gathering, in which members from different generations can sit together to have mealtimes, is becoming impossible. Secondly, the change in lifestyles among youngsters also potentially contributes to the lacking of mealtimes with their family members. The development of social networking sites has generated a new pattern of behavior among young people, in which they waste countless hours gluing on the computer screens and prefer simply a quick snack to spoil their appetite, instead of allocating their free time to their parents.
I would argue that such developing customs can exert numerous detrimental impacts on individuals. From a health-related perspective, holding laid-back attitudes towards regular mealtimes with families means an adequate healthy and balanced diet is impossible to achieve. Furthermore, those who lack home-cooked foods tend to have junk foods or unhygienic ready meals, which may cause several health problems for consumers, including obesity. In terms of mutual interaction, this tendency can also lead to the disappearance of close-knit families, in which daily communication and bonding activities between family members are promoted. As a result, parental involvement will fall by the wayside, which also plays an indispensable part to shape children’s personalities before entering adult life.
In conclusion, while gradual disappearance of family mealtimes can be ascribed to several reasons, I argue that this developing custom can cause many drawbacks to the individual’s lifestyle.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, for example, in conclusion, as a result, by the way, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1921.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.82121212121 5.12529762239 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24429427807 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627272727273 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2465111756 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.214285714 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5714285714 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06120827912 149% => 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 : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.106558244373 0.244688304435 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0401734343839 0.084324248473 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0346248174659 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0697122144426 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0169578571337 0.056905535591 30% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 13.0946893788 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 50.2224549098 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.77 12.4159519038 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.09 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 78.4519038076 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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