Essay Topic: Modern forms of communication such as email and messaging have reduced the amount of time people spend seeing their friends. This has a negative effect on their social lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
New technologies provide people with faster and more convenient communication tools. This leads to substitution of live meetings for virtual communication and changes the social habits of people in this way. I’m not agree it’s purely negative for two reasons. Firstly, going on-line does not discourage friendship but goes on top to face-to-face meetings. Secondly, in many cases such communication becomes the only way to socialize and thus it even improves the social lives for some people. In my essay I would escribe both reasons in more details.
The first reason why I don’t think social lives suffer from new technologies is that people actually do not stop communicating. Moreover, they are connected 24/7, being able to get in touch with any person at any time. There are lots of circumstances why people don’t meet as often as they would like to (i.e. lack of time, money or laziness), and the rareness of meetings could lead to weakening of relations. Social media, messengers or emails on the other hand give you an opportunity to stay in touch despite all the excuses for face-to-face meeting. Personally, I meet monthly with my friend and as well we chat on-line almost daily hereby maintaining and improving our relationship. This exemplifies new technologies improve social life and explains why I do not support the opinion on negative effect.
A second idea is that on-line communication is actually improves the social lives in some cases being the only way to contact other people. For instance, people could stay connected even being located in remote areas. Another example is when a person could not physically get in touch with others due to physical inability or geographical isolation. In such cases virtual connection could become the only way to avoid social isolation and brighten one’s social live. These examples clearly show that new way of communication could not worsen but even improve the level of socialization, which is purely in contrast to the given opinion regarding the negative effect of hi-tech communication tools on social lives.
To summarize, I believe that popular nowadays way of communication improves the socialization via being more accessible and through eliminating the barriers to connection between people. Thus, I don’t support the idea of social lives being negatively affected by communication via electronic devices. I think that in the future this connection would become an important part of our social lives but not fully at expense of face-to-face meeting with friends.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, well, for instance, i think, in contrast, in contrast to, in many cases, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 41.998997996 148% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.3376753507 204% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2159.0 1615.20841683 134% => OK
No of words: 409.0 315.596192385 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27872860636 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95381238773 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515892420538 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 686.7 506.74238477 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5724129928 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.95 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.45 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.45 7.06120827912 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173130547036 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582107709301 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392332703456 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116521653064 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.019809788132 0.056905535591 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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