Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university to travel or gain work experience Do you think this is a good idea or a waste of time Give reasons for your answer and include any your relevant examples from your own knowledge or exper

Nowadays taking a year off before enrolling into a university is commonly practiced by most of the students across the globe to explore new places or to get work experience.
I believe, having a prior work experience offers an advantage over fresher while applying for jobs, however today every student, pursuing university degree can work along with their studies, which is a great idea to do instead of taking a study break.

Many student these days prefer to work in their field of interest before they join a university. This makes it easy for some in deciding the course that is right for them. So, instead of just joining a course straight after completion of school, a proper outlook towards a job responsibility and the work culture in a particular field, helps to make an easy decision. Also, for some when applying for job, having a work experience can prove to be an advantage amongst the fresher. Some even think to travel to other country for an adventure before getting into the busy schedule of studies and work. For example, students enrolling in Doctorate program will not find time for themselves for next 5 to 7 years because, of the study load. So, in order to enjoy for few months, one has to waste a whole year, which is not quiet justifiable.

On the other end, those students who opt to work without a degree in hand, lands them self into a basic job work. In other words, without any professional skills, one will have to work at a lower position. These jobs are usually include the positions like, cashier, waitress or a cleaner. For instance, a survey conducted by Times jobs stated that majority of students who works without a graduate degree often ends up with the survival jobs rather than the professional ones. Doing such jobs is not wrong, however one can get into these kind of work along the side of their studies, so it is better to consider enrolling in to a degree program and continue working at these level.

In conclusion, today every student can work along with their studies, which gives them an opportunity to explore their area of interest side by side. However, those selecting to drop from studies for a year to gain work experience are wasting their time, as these positions are basic and do not offer any advantage on their resume. So, one must find a balance in their study and work life to have a better opportunities in future.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun student seems to be countable; consider using: 'Many students'.
Suggestion: Many students
... do instead of taking a study break. Many student these days prefer to work in their fiel...
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Line 6, column 230, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'included'.
Suggestion: included
... lower position. These jobs are usually include the positions like, cashier, waitress o...
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Line 6, column 533, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
... is not wrong, however one can get into these kind of work along the side of their studies...
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Line 8, column 421, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...ork life to have a better opportunities in future.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, so, while, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 41.998997996 164% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1971.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 420.0 315.596192385 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69285714286 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49490523952 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514285714286 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 627.3 506.74238477 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6531917037 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.941176471 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7058823529 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208321713708 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0771788773085 0.084324248473 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433283517359 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1272305186 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.026504996803 0.056905535591 47% => 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: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.22 12.4159519038 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.58950901804 90% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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