The main purpose of public libraries is to provide books and they shouldn’t waste their limited resources and space on providing expensive hi-tech media such as computer software, videos and DVDs. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
There is no doubt that a library is of key importance in offering students ample opportunity to augment their knowledge in numerous fields from arts and science to trade and commerce. A school of thought, however, contends that libraries should focus only on increasing their collection of books, not on expensive media such as DVDs and computer software, because the collection of books is what a library is recognised and renowned for. This notion, in my opinion, merits little consideration as the ubiquity of technology has dramatically changed the way people access information and knowledge today.
There are a number of arguments in favour of investing money by libraries on electronic media storage.The most preponderant one is that the way people now read books and attain knowledge is no longer the same as it was even a decade or two earlier, prior to the advent of hi-tech media. Not only can readers store hundreds of e-books, electronic copies of paper-based books, in a single device like e-book readers and tablet devices, but they can also retrieve these books later and read them more conveniently without worrying about carrying them. Needless to say, it is high time libraries should also utilise this technological advancement and offer both the hard as well as the soft copies to readers. It should be mentioned here that technology also allows the libraries to ensure that the books can be accessed only for a certain period and can be copied to no other device, thus helping to avoid piracy and copyright concerns.
Another pivotal aspect of CDs and DVDs is that they can help elaborate something more clearly and effectively with the audio-visual effects they have. Besides, by using computer software instead of a heavy encyclopedia or dictionary, learners can grasp things promptly, augment their knowledge successfully and broaden their horizons efficiently. Hence, it is apparent why many are in favour of libraries’ using state-of-the-art technological devices.
From what has been discussed, one can conclude that an immense change in people's reading habit stemming from the advent of technological media sources demands that libraries allocate significant amount of money on keeping CDs, DVDs and software as well as on maintaining a rich collection of books. This will not only cater to the need of growing number of young learners that prefer these new forms of media to the conventional ones, but also benefit learning enormously.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, hence, however, if, so, thus, well, no doubt, such as, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 10.4138276553 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2083.0 1615.20841683 129% => OK
No of words: 399.0 315.596192385 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22055137845 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90116029386 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563909774436 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 645.3 506.74238477 127% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => 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: 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: 33.0 20.2975951904 163% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.9961012312 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 173.583333333 106.682146367 163% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.25 20.7667163134 160% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06120827912 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => 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: 0.176570591621 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0638680611265 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480212643225 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109077851522 0.151304729494 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342356777411 0.056905535591 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.8 13.0946893788 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 50.2224549098 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.3001002004 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.59 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.9 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 78.4519038076 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.1190380762 150% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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