Write about the following topic.
Traditions are about the past and innovation is about the future, and it has been argued that we need to let go of traditions for the sake of progress. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this? What role should traditions have in our lives?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Traditions and cultures are very much integral part of our life though innovations can lead to break of our age old practices. In this essay, I argue that there is no need to abandon our traditions and cultures in the name of progress, and I disagree with the statement that we need to forsake customs for advancement.
First, many of our customary practices are forward looking and, are instrumental in our growth and forward movement. For example, even in traditional times, people used to believe in science and made efforts to achieve progress although they also subscribed to traditional values and ethos. This exemplifies that there is no need to sacrifice our traditions in the name of progress.
Second, traditions have played a very significant roles in human's lives. As tradition itself exhibits diverse practices, there is no one custom that is right or wrong. People around the world may have differing ideas about ancient customs, but they have all marched forward over the years. Therefore, what we can infer is that no one needs to forgo their established cultural norms in the name of progress. That essentially means that traditions are less likely to have obstructive role in human civilisation and growth.
In conclusion, traditional values and progress can go hand on hand and the former can not be said to have impeded the growth. It should be a clarion reminder to everyone that traditions need not be abandoned in the process of making forward progress. We can maintain both of them simultaneously.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, second, so, therefore, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 7.48453608247 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 4.92783505155 223% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 5.05154639175 238% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 3.03092783505 264% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 27.0 32.9175257732 82% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 26.3917525773 133% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 3.85567010309 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1283.0 937.175257732 137% => OK
No of words: 254.0 206.0 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05118110236 4.54256449028 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 3.78020617076 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81789946256 2.54303337028 111% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 127.690721649 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566929133858 0.622605031667 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 396.9 290.88556701 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.41237113402 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.13402061856 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 0.824742268041 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.83505154639 54% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.463917525773 431% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 1.44329896907 139% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6804123711 103% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 16.3608247423 116% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.5657388061 44.8134815571 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6923076923 76.5299724578 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5384615385 16.8248392259 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.30769230769 4.34317383033 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.29896907216 93% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 2.54639175258 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 7.41237113402 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.49484536082 134% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.94845360825 76% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254707985675 0.216113520407 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089342785666 0.0766984524023 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560137313847 0.0603063233224 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149124234628 0.12726935374 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0259462863706 0.0580467560999 45% => 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: 12.1 8.37731958763 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 70.7449484536 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 3.82989690722 230% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 7.45979381443 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 8.71597938144 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 7.59969072165 115% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 41.2886597938 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 8.62886597938 162% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 8.54432989691 112% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 8.15463917526 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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