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In order for any work of art — for example, a film, a novel, a poem, or a song — to have merit, it must be understandable to most people.

We all have certain things that we fascinate about and show our predilection, amongst which includes work of arts. This prompt makes a statement that for any work of art to hold merit, it must be understandable. While this seems to be true, I choose to disagree with the prompt for two reasons.
To start with, the merit or recognition that a work of art receives can be largely attributed to its target audience. The target audience is the group of individuals whom the art creator intends to capture. For instance little children would derive great pleasure listening to nursery rhymes such as “twinkle twinkle little star”. Such nursery rhyme which elicits great enthusiasm amongst little kids does not necessarily need to be understood by them, but rather other factors such as its rhythm and peer influence play a major role in the general acceptability of this nursery rhyme. Little kids can pick up these rhymes from school, and sing along while playing with friends, thereby making it gain merit amongst younger children. To further buttress this point, a song by an artiste my receive over a million streams on a streaming platform like “YouTube” from internet users not because they understand the song, or because it has a meaningful content, but for the fact that its intent is to capture a younger generation who are more energetic and love compositions that are loud, electrifying and having a danceable beat. Also in a society where rock music is loved, a hip-hop song may not strive or gain merit because it does not contain essential elements of rock music despite the fact that it is understandable, it still does not get the required merit.
Furthermore the popularity of the art creator, and the publicity given to the work of art, also plays major roles in determining the merit it receives. As an example, a rap song may be widely accepted due to the popular status of the artiste made possible by the large number of aficionado’s the artiste has being able to build over time. This strong affinity from the large number of fans does not necessarily come because they understand the music. It can result from their love for the artiste personality, style of music, the energy the music brings, or the high publicity which the song has gained due to frequent play time on popular radio stations and by disc jockeys at parties. This affinity from fans can transcend to non-lovers of the artiste, there by increasing the audience and recognition the song gets.
While my point of view may be argued by stating that it is difficult for an art work such as a song made by a French artiste to receive merit in a non French speaking country, well what fascinates a person in a piece of art might just be prosaic to another. Thus in as much as understanding an art piece may help increase its merit, it does not mean it is compulsory as the prompt claims. Other factors such as the personality of the art creator, the target audience, popularity, publicity and peer influence also play a much major role in determining the merit a work of art receives.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, so, still, thus, well, while, for instance, such as, to start with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2547.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 535.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76074766355 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67051328238 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482242990654 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 792.0 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 78.5938143515 60.3974514979 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.5 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7222222222 23.4991977007 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266790822377 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924024153385 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0745096255242 0.0758088955206 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188510035847 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505083663186 0.0667264976115 76% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.92 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.

Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, so, still, thus, well, while, for instance, such as, to start with

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this: