TPO-15 - Independent Writing Task
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
In order to become financially responsible adults, children should learn to manage their own money at young age.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Today's popular psychologists often advise parents to give children money at young age in order to teach the offspring to be financially responsible. Although I understand the ideas on which the stance is based, I do not support it. The reasons on which my prospect is based will be discussed in details below.
Firstly, probably the biggest flaw on the popular idea is that learning how to use money does not automatically create financially responsible adults. Responsibility does not derive from ability to use or safe bills and coins. Being responsible is a personal trait which might and ought...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 392 350
No. of Characters: 1917 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.45 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.89 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.793 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 127 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.636 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.581 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5