Instead of holding books or newspapers, people nowadays normally hold electronic devices and watch bright screens to receive information and news. Although it is much more comfortable than reading through paper materials, there are many side effects of electronic devices.
First, learning through screens disturbs people's critical thinking. Most of the contents on the Internet are usually from ordinary people who do not have professional views. Also, some people abuse their contents to make people believe them without any doubts. It gradually stops users from bothering to question the source of information.
Second, electronic devices are harmful to our health. People who frequently use computers or mobile phones are more likely to have serious eye problems or brain damage, such as cataract or cerebral strokes. Although blue light filters have been made to solve the health problems, it does not stop electronic devices from releasing electromagnetic waves that damage brain cells and many other body parts.
Lastly, electronic devices cause addiction, which blocks communication between people. An experiment was held with two groups of kids aged 12. One group was asked to use electronic devices for five days, while the other was told to read paper materials only. In the end, the group that used paper materials performed way better at recognizing personal emotions, language skills, and creative thinking. The kids that were told to use electronic devices showed anxiety and a lack of social skills after their devices were taken away.
The reading and the lecture are about the harmful effects of electronic devices on people. The author of the reading feels that electronic devices are imposing a negative impact on people's life. However, the lecturer challenges all the claims made by the author and elaborates hereunder.
First of all, the professor mentions that reading newspapers will not improve critical thinking. Moreover, the information we get by reading paper materials is always limited and it revolves around a precise author. This makes the reader to have biased thoughts. On the other hand, electronic devices offer readers to think in a broader perspective by approaching vivid materials. The reading contradicts this point, by mentioning that overuse of screens will impede people's critical thinking and the information over the internet is not reliable as it is written by mundane people rather than professionals.
Secondly, the passage posits that using electronic devices is very harmful to health as they cause eye defects such as cataracts and even more, cerebral strokes. All these problems are due to the emission of the electromagnetic waves from the electronic devices. On the contrary, the tutor says that even by reading books people have several health issues like neck problems and headaches. In addition to that, taking regular intervals between any source of usage will help in avoiding major health issues. She even tells us that it is a matter of body habits we make.
Finally, academician implies that using electronic devices increases social skills by connecting to people. Additionally, the information we get through electronic media cannot be obtained by reading paper materials. Furthermore, we can even share our thoughts with the people over the internet. Thus, the information is plenty and updated over the internet than books. This point is contradicted in the writing saying that using electronic devices creates addiction among people which in turn destroys the communication abilities with their surrounding people and proved through an experiment.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition, such as, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1753.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44409937888 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80046573089 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.8107893546 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.3888888889 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8888888889 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225955714911 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675074220925 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0504214632083 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134780296044 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359416025853 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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