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?
There is an old saying that good handwriting reflects person’s personality. The researchers concluded that the widespread use of smartphones, tablets and computers by children from as young as 12 months old was to blame to not have a legible handwriting. We are now living in a “post-paper” world where people are connected to one device or another at all times. 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 why school should keep teaching handwriting and it’s still holding immense importance and thus lead to a reasonable conclusion.
To commence with, the first and foremost, school should emphasize to teach handwriting because it is a basic tool and used in many subjects like taking notes, taking tests and doing classroom works and homework for almost every content area. Good handwriting helps children in their academics’ performance and build up their confidence. For example, in recent study shows that children who have good handwriting do 70% better in academics as compare to poor handwriting children. Therefore, handwriting helps children to perform better in academics which eventually boost their confidence.
To continue with, handwriting is still relevant to our lives as its not only help children in their academic performance but also help them to get a decent job. Many companies have a writing test before interviewing the candidate and hire writing analysts to judge and guess candidates’ qualities and personality. For instance, many MNC hire writing analysts and offer them a handsome package. So, handwriting is still closely link with their career.
In conclusion, the forgoing discussion propounds the view that school should focus to teach handwriting skills as it helps children to excel in their academics and later earn well.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 282, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...gible handwriting. We are now living in a 'post-paper' world where peop...
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Line 4, column 181, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...in their academics and later earn well.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, so, still, therefore, thus, well, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.5418719212 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 6.10837438424 82% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 8.36945812808 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 20.9802955665 105% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 31.9359605911 110% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 1207.87684729 134% => OK
No of words: 296.0 242.827586207 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46283783784 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17442291276 2.71678728327 117% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 139.433497537 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608108108108 0.580463131201 105% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 379.143842365 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 3.0 1.56157635468 192% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3670534771 50.4703680194 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 104.977214359 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 20.9669160288 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07142857143 7.25397266985 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
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: 0.267341929946 0.242375264174 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0983219692947 0.0925447433944 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121901470278 0.071462118173 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153499746534 0.151781067708 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119407157633 0.0609392437508 196% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 12.6369458128 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.1260098522 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.9458128079 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 11.5310837438 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32886699507 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 55.0591133005 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.94827586207 111% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.5123152709 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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