"All citizens should be required to perform a specified amount of public service. Such service would benefit not only the country as a whole but also the individual participants."
whether all citizens should be required to perform a specified amount of public service is a controversial issue. Nobody can deny that the majority of people spend long hours working and taking care of family obligations. The need not only for career and monetary success but also for a fulfilling personal life leaves no time or energy for people to engage themselves in volunteer work. It is therefore, understandable that requiring citizens to perform such work would create social discontent and encounter strong opposition. However, in my opinion, mandatory community service is indispensable fo...
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- "In an airline company nine out of the one thousand of its customers sent complaints about baggage handling. Therefore, the overwhelming majority feels fine about it, so there is no need to review the procedure of baggage handling." 90
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although it may hard to apply such a system.
although it may be hard to apply such a system.
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 604 350
No. of Characters: 3089 1500
No. of Different Words: 292 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.957 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.114 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.695 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 246 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 181 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 122 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 74 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.16 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.324 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.64 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.286 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.486 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5