Is it good for children to start using computers from an early age and spend long hours on them? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages.
The importance and popularity of allowing children have access to as well as extended period on computer devices at early stage is becoming increasingly a global practice in recent times. This phenomenon has a plethora of merits and demerits which will be discussed in this essay with excerpts from The New York Times journal and Daily Times magazine.
To begin with, the benefits associated with children being able to use computers at tender age are enormous. Initially, with the computer and internet facility, children can easily get solutions to difficult assignments which hitherto would not have been possible. Consequently, parents and guardians are less burdened by the extra task of helping out with the home work, after a tedious day at work. Another advantage is the ease of getting acquainted with recent global trends (such as learning software development, coding skills, engineering skills and basic computer skills) since the world is becoming technologically driven. As a result, they develop career defining skills from childhood. A recent article in the New York Times journal reported that seventy percent of the top managers from the leading banks were those that had access to computer during the early stages of their lives.
On the flip side, there are significant setbacks associated with this practice. Firstly, children being very vulnerable at that stage of their life can get carried away with distractions such as games. Ultimately, their academic performance can be negatively impacted. More so, through the computer, children can access pornographic sites if left unchecked; the effect of this is a possible surge in rape cases. For instance, the Daily Times journal carried out a survey on one thousand reported cases of rape. Ninety percent of the perpetrators were those whom have been exposed to pornography from childhood.
As a closing remark, it can said that there are merits for giving children access to computer and also spending extended hours on them right from childhood. However, the demerits of such practice are far reaching and therefore cannot be overlooked.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'say'
Suggestion: say
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, look, so, therefore, well, for instance, such as, as a result, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1782.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 336.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30357142857 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72657384495 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574404761905 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8733333037 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.375 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5625 7.06120827912 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
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: 0.187382271383 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0565123932092 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.06233547827 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122051035454 0.151304729494 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0514672357387 0.056905535591 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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