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?
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?
Handwriting skills are decreasing among students thanks to technology. While some believe the importance of keeping the teaching handwriting technique others support to stop teaching this skill at schools. This essay will discuss why handwriting should not be avoided among youngsters.
To begin with, handwriting breaks the barriers of knowledge once who write by hand is capable of memorizing large amounts of information. Certainly, these students become effective writers able to develop interesting essays. For example, journalists who are known as talented writes and barely use any technologic device to do their work. The process of memorization of information overpass the boundaries through writing by hand.
In addition, the avoidance of handwriting is responsible for children become ineffective writers. Obviously, these students will be affected by this weaknesses when starting university. For instance, high school scholars who are not able to write a 150 words essay due to the unstoppable use of tablets. Youths become unskilled writers avoiding writing by hands.
This essay discussed why handwriting is important to gather information and how the avoidance of writing by hands turns into a problem for children in the future. In my opinion, I believe that schools should keep teaching handwriting skills.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 247, 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
... old was to blame. We are now living in a 'post-paper' world where peop...
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Line 3, column 71, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
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.
...ng among students thanks to technology. While some believe the importance of keeping ...
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Line 5, column 144, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...sly, these students will be affected by this weaknesses when starting university. Fo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
so, while, as to, for example, for instance, in addition, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.5418719212 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 8.36945812808 60% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 20.9802955665 67% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 31.9359605911 128% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.75862068966 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1528.0 1207.87684729 127% => OK
No of words: 276.0 242.827586207 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53623188406 5.00649968141 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08631006363 2.71678728327 114% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 139.433497537 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.61231884058 0.580463131201 105% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 379.143842365 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 12.6551724138 142% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.5024630542 73% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.5668993695 50.4703680194 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.8888888889 104.977214359 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3333333333 20.9669160288 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 7.25397266985 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.12807881773 145% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.33497536946 56% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 2.75862068966 290% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 2.91625615764 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.294684750434 0.242375264174 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.09166610251 0.0925447433944 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.167326528327 0.071462118173 234% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166783528668 0.151781067708 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.273241390457 0.0609392437508 448% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 12.6369458128 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.1260098522 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.9458128079 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.26 11.5310837438 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.32886699507 103% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 55.0591133005 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.94827586207 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.3980295567 77% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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