Task 2: Many countries import large amounts of food from other parts of the world. Is this a positive or negative development?
It is true that these days, the tendency to impulsively import foods from different parts of the world has been becoming widespread in many countries. Although the ever-increasing volume of such imports may bring some notable benefits for the host countries, I firmly believe this can also lead to several detrimental consequences.
On the one hand, many countries have to promote food imports due to their lack of natural resources. In some African regions, for example, the massive increase in population density means the available cropland is inadequate to meet the demand for food consumption. These tend to be occupied with deserts and mountainous areas, in which natural resources are soon depleted. Furthermore, the harsh climate is also a factor that drives the government to import food, in the case of prolonged drought or excessive cold. Besides, in city centers of developed countries, the requirement for a wide diversity of food of the urban dwellers is ubiquitous, which gradually stimulates the demand for importing novel food sources from other regions. Many European people, for instance, believe that there is nothing more satisfying than eating tropical fruits and rice during winter, even though such foods have to be imported from Asian countries which are thousands of miles away.
On the other hand, an out-of-control importing regime can also exert numerous negative influences. In terms of ecological crisis, in order to alleviate global warming and environmental degradation, national and local authorities need to impose different policies on food miles and the dependence on fossil fuels. Nonetheless, the increasing food imports mean the usage of freight services and heavy transportation is promoted, leading to the growing demand for mineral extraction. From a health-related perspective, food which has to be imported is not fresh. In order to extend shelf life, many giant exporters tend to opt for genetic modification and the addition of different chemical preservatives to their food products, which can cause several degenerative health problems for consumers, including cancers.
In conclusion, although importing a large amount of food can be advantageous in some notable circumstances, I concur with the argument that this trend is contributing to environmental destruction as well as damage to humans’ health.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, if, may, nonetheless, so, well, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1997.0 1615.20841683 124% => OK
No of words: 363.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50137741047 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07060848652 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.589531680441 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 616.5 506.74238477 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.3133928499 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.642857143 106.682146367 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9285714286 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0714285714 7.06120827912 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304864778274 0.244688304435 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10384628082 0.084324248473 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0672000671314 0.0667982634062 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177432944574 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0244178665194 0.056905535591 43% => 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: 17.4 13.0946893788 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.27 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 78.4519038076 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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