The graph below shows how prices of "high-tech gadgets" changed over time in Somecountry( revised version)
The line graph compares the price of" high-tech gadgets" over the five-month period in a country.
Overall the navigation system was more expensive than the smart phone. As the months went by, the prices of both products fall gradually.
More specifically, the selling price of the navigation system was $4500, compared to $3000 for the smart phone. By the second-half year of 2005, the average price of GPS went downward, falling to $3000, while the figure for the smart phone fell to the same level. Clearly, a dip was shown in the price of the smart phone, falling to approximately $2800 in the first six-month of 2005.
From this point onward, navigations system was sold at a higher price by first-half year of 2006, with around $500 higher than the price in half-year ago. However, the value of it reduced to around $2700 by the end of 2006. Meanwhile, the market price for smart phone fell slightly and remained steady throughout the whole year, at $2700 that stood at the same level as the navigation system.
- The graph below gives information from a 2008 report about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projections until 2030 70
- Some people think news has no connection to people s lives So then it is a waste of time to read the newspaper and watch television news programs To what extent do you agree or disagree 83
- Advertising encourages people to buy in quantity rather to consider quality To what extent do you agree or disagree 58
- Some people believe that those who are not talented in language learning should not required to learn a second language What is your opinion 73
- Some people think environmental problems are too big for one country or one individual to solve. All the countries on this planet must work together in order to solve them. Do you agree? 65
flaws:
'the selling price of the navigation system was $4500' ???
no 'GPS' from the graph.
'fall' is repeated a lot of times in one essay.
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Score: 6.5 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 10
No. of Words: 176 200
No. of Characters: 807 1000
No. of Different Words: 93 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.642 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.585 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.387 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 47 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 32 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 22 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 16 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.5 7.5
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Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.446 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.707 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4