Experts emphasize that maintaining mental and physical abilities is the best way to avoid cognitive decline in older adulthood. Studying and learning new things can open up one’s mind and horizon. There is without doubt that the importance of older people to learn new things has been greatly discussed in the society.
Firstly, the famous psychologist Maslow has proposed his research about the human’s mental needs. The research indicated that self-actualization is the most vital item which can help people gets confidence and happiness. The people at their older ages are usually retired from work, they don’t have to chasing the fortune or compete with other workers. However, most people would feel depressed after depriving of work. Studying new things, for instance, physical exercise, healthy eating and doing crossword puzzles can encourage older people have chances to establish their own achievements.
In addition, learning new things is benefiting for the mental health of older people. To facilitate learning new things, older people can borrow lessons from childhood. In the process, they have to think the concepts of the project, interact with other people and organize their ideas. All of these methods can stimulate their brains, improve their cognitive functions, and prevent them from the diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease or mental deterioration.
On the other hand, the ability to live independently require periodic adopt because of changes in our environments, especially due to technological advances. This means learning new things such as smartphone or website is important. If older people avoid learning these skills by themselves, they will need to keep asking others to do stuff for them. It would make them lose the ability to live independently and cause their fear of new things.
In sum, the results of older people learning new things have positive impact on their mental health and self-actualization. Studying new things brings older people out of their comfort zone, and makes them feel fearless about new challenges. At the start of learning, many older people thought they could barely walk a mental mile, but they completed the triathlon.
- Some people believe that a good ability of adapting or adjusting to a new condition or circumstance is more important than knowledge in a job or in a field What do you think 76
- Is it as important for older people to learn and study new things as young people to do so? 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One can learn about another person by the books and movies that person likes. 66
- In the future students may have the choice of studying at home by using technology such as computers or television or of studying at traditional schools Which would you prefer Use reasons and specific details to explain your choice 76
- Some people prefer to change jobs or professions during their careers Others choose to stay in the same job or profession Discuss the advantages of each choice Which do you prefer Use reasons and examples to explain your choice 76
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, so, for instance, in addition, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 15.1003584229 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1876.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 344.0 407.700716846 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45348837209 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85331281088 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 212.727598566 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561046511628 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.902043429 48.9658058833 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7368421053 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1052631579 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78947368421 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.442746610588 0.236089414692 188% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152196311277 0.076458572812 199% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113870518463 0.0737576698707 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.275829490198 0.150856017488 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0563213658622 0.0645574589148 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.03 10.9000537634 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 86.8835125448 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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.