A recent study has shown that over 50% of school children cannot write legibly. The researchers concluded that the widespread use of smartphones, tablets and computers by children from as young as 12 months old was to blame. We are now living in a “post-paper” world where people are connected to one device or another at all times.
Should schools stop teaching handwriting entirely and focus instead on their typing skills? Is handwriting no longer relevant?
In technological era, there is much debate on whether children should focus on handwriting or typing skills. Some people believe that school should stop teaching handwriting entirely and focus instead on their typing skills as it is no longer relevant. While others argue that handwriting is more helpful to learn basic things. I am inclined to believe that school should focus on children’s handwriting though typing skills have become essentially these days. This essay will discuss both side in detail and lead to a plausible conclusion.
To commence with, handwriting is a basic tool which school should teach to every child as it is used in many subjects like taking notes, taking tests and doing classroom works and homework for almost every content area. And handwriting plays vital role in their academic performance and build up their confidence, where poor handwriting can have a pervasive effect on their school performance. For example, when children learn how to write letter “m”, they can learn its sound and attention to linkage among handwriting, reading and spelling skills.
On the flip side, typing skills will help children to save a lot of time and save the cost of stationary which indirectly save the planet. Therefore, some schools are focusing more on typing skills which will also help children to get job and earn well in future and have a better life. For instance, my friend had an excellent typing skill and she became a content writer and earns well. Therefore, typing skills open career opportunity for children.
In conclusion, the foregoing discussion propounds the view that although typing skills help children in today’s technological era to survive, still good handwriting helps them to improve their academic performance and boost their confidence.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.5418719212 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 6.10837438424 147% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 8.36945812808 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 31.9359605911 97% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1531.0 1207.87684729 127% => OK
No of words: 288.0 242.827586207 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31597222222 5.00649968141 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78538671415 2.71678728327 103% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 139.433497537 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590277777778 0.580463131201 102% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 379.143842365 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.555971854 50.4703680194 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.769230769 104.977214359 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1538461538 20.9669160288 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53846153846 7.25397266985 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.100749711765 0.242375264174 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0418080739876 0.0925447433944 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0326101477349 0.071462118173 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0652816977266 0.151781067708 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0102719704445 0.0609392437508 17% => 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: 14.7 12.6369458128 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.1260098522 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 11.5310837438 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32886699507 96% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 55.0591133005 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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