Fewer schools are requiring children to learn and improve their hand writing skills. Do the advantage outweigh the disadvantages of this trend
Learning and improving students handwriting is becoming a lower priority for some schools. In my opinion, it has more drawbacks. In my opinion, sharpening writing skills has more benefits to students; however, this trend could be detrimental to the students writing abilities and cognitive development.
On the one hand, the less importance given to handwriting can be advantageous in certain aspects. Firstly, students are generally under the pressure of leaning academic subjects like Math and physics. On top of it, learning writing skills would become an added task for them. Secondly, with the advent of modern technology, several pupils are using tablets and smartphones to help them with their assignments. Fewer written notes are being witnessed in classrooms.
On the other hand, discouraging the habit of improvement in handwriting often leads to a negative impact on their learning abilities. As the student learns to write, they develop their writing style, and if the practice of handwriting is less, the writing also becomes illegible over the period. For instance, primary school children who practice cursive writing less frequently, their writing is often difficult to understand. Legible writing is often compared to a calm state of mind, and in my perspectives, educational institutions should have separate classes to hone this skill. Furthermore, writing practices improves the cognitive development in students,it helps them retain and understand the subject material.
To illustrate, if a student reads something that needs to be remembered, he/she could write it several times to learn it. Therefore, in my view, to have a sharp mind and to keep text retained, writing is a crucial exercise.
To sum up, even some schools often believe improving writing is not essential, however, it ought to be utilised as a skill that stimulates the young minds to learn and grasp the subjects that are taught.
- Last month you had a holiday overseas where you stayed with some friends They have just sent you some photos of your holiday Write a letter to your friends In your letter thank them for the photos and for the holiday explain why you didn t write earlier i 84
- You work at home and have a problem with a piece of equipment that you use for your job Write a letter to the shop or company which supplied the equipment In your letter describe the problem with the equipment explain how this problem is affecting your wo 81
- The growth of online shopping will one day lead to all shops in towns and cities closing Do you agree or disagree 89
- You have recently been to stay with an old friend for a few days You hadn t seen each other for a long time Write a letter to your friend In your letter say how you felt about the visit refer to something enjoyable that you did while staying with him her 73
- Your friend recently invited you for a meal at her or his house After the meal you decided to write to your friend Write a letter to your friend In your letter Thank your friend for the meal Explain what you enjoyed about having the meal in your friend s 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 225, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to write'.
Suggestion: to write
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Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , it
...es the cognitive development in students,it helps them retain and understand the su...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, even so, for instance, in my opinion, in my view, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1629.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 302.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3940397351 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92991726116 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58940397351 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4355669663 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.8125 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.875 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.9375 7.06120827912 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304830948826 0.244688304435 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920505318835 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572475337754 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157134804338 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610058650477 0.056905535591 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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