In recent years, farming practice has changed to include methods such as factory farming and the use of technology to improve crops. Some people believe these developments are necessary, while others regard them as dangerous and advocate a return to more traditional farming methods. Discuss both points of view and give your own opinion.
It is argued that farming methods have been revolutionized in recent years. Although I think the net effect of these changes is for the benefit to mankind, I myself believe that the drawbacks far outweigh the advantages.
On the one hand, some people said that innovations in agriculture seems to be positive. In fact, the world population has been growing so dramatically that traditional methods of agriculture appear not to provide enough food to the people in the world. Besides, when natural disasters like droughts or flooding happens, the risk of people suffering famine will be more considerable. Therefore, developing countries all over the world should focus more on efficient and advanced methods of farming such as applying genetically modified crops. In addition, the quality of life of farmers will be improved since such advances make less labor intensive.
On the other hand, there are some reasons making other people support a return to smaller scale and more organic farming. Firstly, the fact that we are over-dependent on factory farming and technological applications brings about diseases like bird flu, swine flu. Secondly, the number of chemicals like pesticides overused in factory farms results in soil and water pollution, which affects the local eco-system. The last reason is organic food is much healthier to people’s health because no scientific evidence shows the safety of genetically modified food.
In conclusion, although there are arguments for both sides of the case, I think the long-term dangers of this trend is so cautious. I suggest people should invest more in upgrading traditional farming methods to make them more efficient and stronger legislation should be applied to ensure that both factory farms and genetically modified crops are safe to the environment and human consumption.
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- Unemployment is one of the most serious problems facing developed nations today. What are the advantages and disadvantages of reducing the working week to thirty five hours? 73
- In many countries today, people in big cities either live alone or in small family units, rather than in large, extended family groups. Is this a positive or a negative trend? 84
- Many governments think that economic progress is their most important goal. Some people, however, think that other types of progress are equally important for a country. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. 73
- People attend colleges or universities for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge etc.). Why do you think people attend colleges or universities? 84
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, i think, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 289.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37024221453 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88120415594 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602076124567 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7826801021 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.384615385 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2307692308 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3076923077 7.06120827912 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31031050103 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946550936939 0.084324248473 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062357300792 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168980634713 0.151304729494 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00821660285922 0.056905535591 14% => 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: 15.0 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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