This topic is about whether to preserve old buildings or destroy them in cities. There has been an argument over the issue, but I would prefer to preserve them for future generations. I have two significant reasons, which I will explore in the following paragraphs.
To begin with, old historic buildings reflect the city's history. Preserving them directly leads to preserving the history. In my city, for example, a historic building made of bricks stands in the middle of the downtown. This facility was firstly built as a bank, which was later renovated as a hotel. Buildings built of bricks are not common in my neighborhood, and it has been regarded as a precious remains that reflects the process of the country's modernization. Every time we pass by it, we think back to the time when people strived to modernize the nation. Therefore, it is important to conserve historic buildings in cities.
Another reason is that we can benefit from historic buildings. Old buildings are not just old, but are accompanied with a decent history. They might be useful for the city's tourism. They might also be renovated with modernized interior equipments, adding a new taste to the building. Personally, I live in a countryside and my neighboring house looked miserable with nobody to live in for years. Few years ago, however, the municipal officers in charge came and renovated it as a polished restaurant. It became a new attraction of the precinct, intriguing an increasing number of people to come.
Some people might argue against the idea of preserving old buildings. They might counter that building new buildings can create job opportunities, galvanizing the city on the whole. However, I doubt this notion because preserving old buildings also requires human resources from various aspects. Just as repairing an old painted work requires a highly-skilled techniques, so does repairing an old building.
For those reasons, I support the idea that old historic buildings should be preserved. Destroying them is easy, but no buildings that arise after them would be an alternative to them, hence they should be preserved.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, so, therefore, for example, on the whole, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1786.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 348.0 407.700716846 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13218390805 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91025426127 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 212.727598566 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534482758621 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.9613643433 48.9658058833 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.652173913 100.406767564 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.1304347826 20.6045352989 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.69565217391 5.45110844103 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384788423573 0.236089414692 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107145260759 0.076458572812 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874643493113 0.0737576698707 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21494845702 0.150856017488 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0556438693733 0.0645574589148 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.88 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.002688172 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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