Many people say that we have developed into a “throw-away”
culture, because we are filling up our environment with so many
plastic bags and rubbish that we cannot fully dispose of. To what
extent do you agree with this opinion and what measures can you
recommend reducing this problem?
Environmentalists today are campaigning for “reduce, recycle and re-use” in a bid to save
the world, but we as a nation, have adopted “replace” as our mantra. This and many other
factors are leading to a throwaway society. In this essay, I shall discuss some steps that can
be taken to solve this problem.
To begin with, modern lifestyle has contributed greatly to the increasing amount of waste
and garbage we produce every day. In other words, we have turned into a materialistic and
mass-consumption society where we use more and throw away more than ever before.
Once new things are acquired, we dispose off these “unwanted” things to second-hand
shops or just in the trash cans. The solution lies in changing our attitude. We should get old
things repaired and try to use them as long as possible.
Secondly, the markets today are flooded with cheap, single-use-only things that are more in
demand than high priced quality items. Our houses and closets seem to be overflowing with
goods that are more in quantity and less in value. Then, there is too much packaging done
by the companies in a bid to make their things more attractive. Here too, the onus lies with
us. We should not buy things with excessive packaging. This will deter companies from
doing too much packaging. We can also bring our own personal shopping bags instead of
using plastic bags provided by stores and shops. Besides, the government can enforce
stricter laws on companies to use biodegradable packaging.
Furthermore, plastics, waste metal, glass can be recycled. Companies can also contribute by
developing the new raw material which is recyclable and will ultimately lead to less garbage.
To put it in a nutshell, I pen down saying that, individuals, business and the government can
share the responsibility to reduce the amount of waste material and to save the earth. If we
do not take steps to tackle this problem on a war footing, our Earth will become un-
inhabitable.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1706.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12312312312 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07586384873 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 176.041082164 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597597597598 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 5.43587174349 221% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.8390438184 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.3 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.65 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 23.0 4.38176352705 525% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30383646391 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0814330802618 0.084324248473 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0563650801834 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0773464176975 0.151304729494 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647796830136 0.056905535591 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.0946893788 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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