Should computers and tablets completely replace books in schools and universities?
Write an essay giving your opinion.
It has been suggested that technological appliances such as computers and tablets should take over the role of books in academic institutes. In my opinion, this suggestion is impractical and should not be implemented.
Advocates of this idea argue that these electronic devices provide much greater use than printed materials. For instance, they update information faster, store greater quantities of data and permit access to the Internet for further online research which are the essential limitations of traditional means of storing information that are books. In addition, it is also observable that for such convenience, in modern times, books no longer retain their appeal to readers as they used to, which is witnessed by the drastic decrease in book sales. Therefore, computers and tablets are bound to replace the hard copies of words in schools and universities.
Although I acknowledge the validity of these ideas, I believe they are outweighed by two powerful arguments. To begin with, replacing books with high-tech devices in education facilities is a risky choice for the fact that it requires exhaustive financial resources to purchase these appliances. In Vietnam, a similar proposition was introduced to the National Congress but was denied for costing half of the national development budget to initiate such transformation without any definite guarantee for its results. Moreover, it is evident that the prevalence of highly advanced technological machines acts a catalyst to the spreading deterioration of public health. That people become couch potatoes and suffer from visual impairment owing to the excessive use of computers has been regularly featured in national news reports in recent years.
In conclusion, albeit boasting certain advantages, modern technological devices such as tablets and computers should not be encouraged to be present as the main storage of information in schools and universities.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, moreover, so, therefore, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1649.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57094594595 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06452812572 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611486486486 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 50.4338813586 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.416666667 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6666666667 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.58333333333 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163344950909 0.244688304435 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0629250156626 0.084324248473 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.069820943855 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113458931547 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0540737759384 0.056905535591 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.32 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.48 8.58950901804 122% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => 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: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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