Teenagers are spending an increasing amount of time on the Internet, and this is having a negative effect on their social skills. Do you agree or disagree?
With the advancement of science and technology, adolescents tend to invest in a huge amount of time on the Internet. Although this has a small amount of negative impact, there are many positive impacts that easily eliminates the few negatives. This essay provides the positive effects on the social skills of teenagers.
The primary positive aspect is that, adolescents spending more time utilising the Internet can hone their study skills, thereby honing their social skills as well. In other words, improving study skills includes improvising on presentation skills, they tend to become outspoken pupils, and hence their soft skills also tend to develop. This skill development at an earlier age ensures them to grow periodically well in the future.
The secondary aspect is that, students are exposed to a wide variety of social apps and sites such as, Facebook, WhatsApp and many more. This helps them to increase their contacts worldwide providing them a global exposure. They try to learn cultural differences and also experience different accents or languages through their contacts. This again, increases their social abilities.
The tertiary aspect is that, in the long run, due to a large exposure, they can very well increase their employment opportunities. To give a clear example, recruitment of candidates, nowadays, happen widely through social sites such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor. This proves that improvement of social skills also pave way to employment opportunities.
With the above aspects clearly stated, it is therefore evident that adolescents spending more time online improve their social skills for their betterment, and these positive aspects outweigh the negatives.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, second, so, therefore, well, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1447.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 262.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.52290076336 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77182552192 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580152671756 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4195472008 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.357142857 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7142857143 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92857142857 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275680817801 0.244688304435 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101570870943 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631661645395 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151996487803 0.151304729494 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372964003664 0.056905535591 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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