GRE Issue:Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation must be the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.Reason: Great achievements by a nation's rulers, artists, or scientists will ensure a good life for the majority of that nation's people

The author claims that the surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievement of it's rulers, artists, or scientists and he reasons the claim as the indicator being the welfare of all it's people. The attribute "great" nation is of many types. Here we can take up two scenarios one where a nation can be great economically and another where it is great scientifically.

First to take up a nation which is great economically. In this perspective, the above two statements are actually coternious. They are overlapped and if one is possible, the other should too be possible. Taking first the reason. The welfare of the people reflects a great amount of facts. It portrays the economic and social development within the country. Countries with high economic standards essentially hold a better rank among-st the developed nations in the world. As the statistics go down, so do the economic standards. This economic standard is essentially the amount of people who have high live-off standards, that is, those who have a roof over their heads and a job to sustain it. Now comes the question, why are there nations that do not have good economic standards. Essentially the welfare of the people is just an outlook of the nation's prosperity. Behind every successful nation is a set of excellent leaders, good strategists, and essentially a wise government. To take up a country from an underdeveloped sector to put it among-st at least the developing sector requires great plans and strategies which shape up the society. In terms of talking about 'indicator' or 'outlook', of course it is the welfare of it's people that signifies how economically improved a nation is.

Taking up the next scenario, where a nation is scientifically great. That is in terms of improvements in technology and advancements in science. In this perspective however, the achievements of artists and scientists is what reflects the 'greatness' of a country. We often come across statements like ' X has found the next level of technology- He/she is from Country XYZ'. It's evident from the fact that we often come across texts in student's textbook often stating facts about the history of a scientist. Nations get acknowledged by these facts.

Therefore yes, to an extent, the above said claim and reason becomes valid, but on an scientific scale, we often find achievements of rulers and artists playing an important role in being the indicator of a great nation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...nd if one is possible, the other should too be possible. Taking first the reason. The ...
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...of the people is just an outlook of the nations prosperity. Behind every successful nat...
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...ry. We often come across statements like X has found the next level of technology...
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Suggestion: Therefore,
...ns get acknowledged by these facts. Therefore yes, to an extent, the above said claim...
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... claim and reason becomes valid, but on an scientific scale, we often find achieve...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, look, so, therefore, at least, of course, talking about

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2045.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 408.0 442.535393258 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01225490196 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99705798168 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 215.323595506 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502450980392 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 704.065955056 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4668800534 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.2083333333 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364570991022 0.243740707755 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100745882265 0.0831039109588 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106954720626 0.0758088955206 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.2442241012 0.150359130593 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.145020713858 0.0667264976115 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => Gunning_fog is low.
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => The average readability is low. Need to improve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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