To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.

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To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.

I agree with the speaker’s broad assertion that ethical and moral standards are crucial elements of any leaders. However, the speaker unnecessarily turned this broad assertion into a untenable cause-and-effect relationship stating that only by attaining the highest ethical and moral standards can be an effective leader. In my view, the effectiveness of a leader is contingent and it is impractical to maintain the highest level even in situations where moral and ethics are needed.

There is no doubt that maintaining a high ethical and moral level can keep leaders away from the abuse of power and build prestige among his followers. Especially for leaders who serves for the public need, a high ethical and moral standard is required to build up his public image and make it easier and more efficient to carry out the leader’s plan. Mark Zuckerburg, an American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder of a social networking website Facebook, which is widely used among all aged people all over the world. In the meantime that he is so succeed in managing and leading the company, he announced to donate majority of his wealth in a form of Facebook shares to scores of high level education institutions and became top one philanthropist in 2013. This move undoubtedly affect people who admires him and made him an effective leader.

However, in some cases, leader’s efficiency and ethics can be treated as a dilemma situation. With the awareness of information asymmetry, it is commonly known that a full coverage of information can be used as a tool of improving efficiency in the process of decision making, and this may raise a problem of information privacy. The Watergate scandal can be cited as an example. In a year of presidential election, Richard Milhous Nixon and his fellows eavesdropped internal information regarding to the election strategy made by the Democracy. Even though such a scandal was exposed to the public and Nixon resigned from the presidency, he can not be denied to be an effectively leader due to his several accomplishments made to the American history. His ability to end the Vietnam War that lasts the longest in American history should not be ignored.

In addition, it is too idealistic to require leaders to attain the highest level of moral and ethical standards in order to be effective since there are other factors to consider in terms of a leader’s efficiency. Efficiency is the quality of doing something well and effectively, without wasting time, money, or energy. Accordingly, a leader’s self competence, charisma, ability of time management, approval rate and implementation rate. A high moral and ethics standards is a tool applied to increase leaders’ approval rate, thus, does not necessary need and practical to be the highest.

In conclusion, although it is important for a leader to obtain as a high level of ethics and moral as possible, there are other factors to examine a leader’s efficiency. Consequently, it is presumptuous to link leaders’ efficiency with the highest moral and ethics standards.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 187, 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
...sarily turned this broad assertion into a untenable cause-and-effect relationship...
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Line 5, column 672, Rule ID: A_RB_NN[1]
Message: You used an adverb ('effectively') instead an adjective, or a noun ('leader') instead of another adjective.
... presidency, he can not be denied to be an effectively leader due to his several accomplishments made...
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Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'consequently', 'however', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'no doubt', 'in my view', 'in some cases']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.256055363322 0.240241500013 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.13321799308 0.157235817809 85% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110726643599 0.0880659088768 126% => OK
Adverbs: 0.038062283737 0.0497285424764 77% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0346020761246 0.0444667217837 78% => OK
Prepositions: 0.103806228374 0.12292977631 84% => OK
Participles: 0.038062283737 0.0406280797675 94% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.25036034482 2.79330140395 116% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0346020761246 0.030933414821 112% => OK
Particles: 0.00346020761246 0.0016655270985 208% => OK
Determiners: 0.100346020761 0.0997080785238 101% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0138408304498 0.0249443105267 55% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0103806228374 0.0148568991511 70% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3117.0 2732.02544248 114% => OK
No of words: 501.0 452.878318584 111% => OK
Chars per words: 6.22155688623 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.385229540918 0.366273622748 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.321357285429 0.280924506359 114% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.229540918164 0.200843997647 114% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.161676646707 0.132149295362 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25036034482 2.79330140395 116% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 219.290929204 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497005988024 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 58.3288127109 55.4138127331 105% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 25.05 23.380412469 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6772246801 59.4972553346 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.85 141.124799967 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.05 23.380412469 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.65 0.674092028746 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 57.1857285429 51.4728631049 111% => OK
Elegance: 1.93277310924 1.64882698954 117% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.432545171511 0.391690518653 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.135069449149 0.123202303941 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.080288718398 0.077325440228 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.558071879901 0.547984918172 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.139917899608 0.149214159877 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.179231703182 0.161403998019 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929386250425 0.0892212321368 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.450720411424 0.385218514788 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0489663520858 0.0692045440612 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.307672532662 0.275328986314 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0660004905256 0.0653680567796 101% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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