Fewer and fewer people walk on a daily basic. What are the reasons and how to encourage them to spend their time walking?
In modern life, many people have lost their habit of walking regularly. There are some reasons for this tendency, and several actions need to be taken to motivate citizens to spend more time on walking.
To begin with, there are several reasons why fewer people walk regularly these days. The first reason is that the development of technology has facilitated the way people move. Instead of walking which takes much time and effort, many people prefer to travel by their cars or motorbikes which are far more convenient. Even within a certain building, people do not need to walk much because escalators and lifts are usually available to help them move up and down easily. In addition, the sedentary lifestyle of many people these days caused by huge pressure at work or school. Some people have to work until late night every day without having the time to walk or work out.
Some measures can be implemented to encourage people to walk more often. First, no-stopping zones ought to be established in some crowded places, which will dissuade citizens from using their cars unnecessarily. For example, if no-stopping zones are located in the vicinity of schools, parents who accompany children to school would become accustomed to the habit of a daily walk. Second, in low-rise buildings, the use of stairs should be obligatory, with a lift only for disabled people. Final, pedestrianization in some bustling areas in cities also an effective method, especially if these pedestrian-only zones are covered by many trees, people are attracted to walk in these green areas.
In conclusion, some reasons why people are walking less regularly can be identified, and some simple solutions should be adopted to encourage them to walk more frequently.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, second, so, for example, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1467.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09375 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69916316121 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 5.43587174349 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.9665607559 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.785714286 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5714285714 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92857142857 7.06120827912 84% => 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 : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.330494124661 0.244688304435 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116025379513 0.084324248473 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0721090786747 0.0667982634062 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206171590298 0.151304729494 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553881412983 0.056905535591 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.