Illiteracy continues to be a concern for many countries in the world today. What are the
causes of illiteracy in the modern world, and what effects does it have on the people concerned and on society as a whole?
Poor literacy rate remains to be the major issue for many nations around the world. There seem to be two main causes for the issue, and several consequences which will be discussed in this essay.
Perhaps the major cause here is the negligence of the government towards education. The funds given to build new schools and to run existing educational institutes are not enough. We can look at India for instance, where 20% of its population has never been to schools and does not even know basic reading and writing skills. However, the official data shows that the fund invested in buying military weapons is far more than the education fund. A further well-known issue is the ever-increasing cost of living, medical and school fees. Many poor families struggle to even bring food to their table. Therefore, they cannot afford to send their kids to school.
The impact of the illiteracy on an individual as well as whole society can be quite serious. Firstly, illiterate people in general struggle to earn decent amount. This results in a poor living stand for themselves and their families. Another widely-observed consequence is increased crime rate. The illiterate people often cannot find employment and they tend to indulge into inappropriate income sources such as robbery, theft and murders. This makes the whole society feel unsafe and in danger. Finally, poor literacy rate may also result into lack of professionals such as engineers, teachers, lawyers and doctors without whom a nation cannot really function well.
Overall, the factors such as negligence of the government, prohibitive school fees and ever-rising cost of living seem to be the main causes for poor literacy rate. Consequently, it puts the whole society and the illiterate individuals in a vicious circle which is difficult to escape.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, really, so, therefore, well, for instance, in general, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1522.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14189189189 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73249625664 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618243243243 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.9802758037 49.4020404114 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.5555555556 106.682146367 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4444444444 20.7667163134 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.94444444444 7.06120827912 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.67935871743 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154974907184 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0454983555713 0.084324248473 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0495680102624 0.0667982634062 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100212169117 0.151304729494 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476656577388 0.056905535591 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.0946893788 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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