Some people believe that sport is an essential part of school life for children, while others feel it should be purely optional. Discuss these opposing views and give your own opinion.
School sport continues to be a controversial topic in the school curriculum, just as sport itself has become a controversial industry in some respects. There are valid arguments on both sides, which will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
On the one hand, there are considerable number of logical arguments against it. For instance, critics feel that it uses up time which could be better spent on academic subjects such as exam preparation. In addition, it might be said that it is unwise to force children to do activities which they have no interest in. After all, some youngsters are just not sporty, so should be allowed to study instead. Finally, there are question marks over the wholesomeness of sport itself, with drugging and corruption scandals increasingly common, as we can be seen in cycling at present. Some people believe that this lack of morals sets a poor example to young people.
On the other hand, it has also significant number of counter-arguments as well in terms of advantages it brings. For example, one such major benefit of sport is that it helps children’s physical development at an important stage. If all their time was spent studying, they would become unfit, eventually their minds would suffer. Furthermore, supporters of school sport emphasize the importance of team building in sports such as football or hockey, which is often felt to be an excellent preparation for adulthood. Moreover, many people feel that a competitive spirit, so important today, is fostered by sports at an early age. It is notable, to exemplify that many successful business people excelled in sport at school.
In conclusion, I feel that sport should be compulsory for school children, because the positive effect on their mental and physical development outweighs the negatives provided that children are given a wide range to choose from, to ensure their interest is high, the sport industry itself maintains the highest standards of conduct as well.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, furthermore, if, moreover, so, well, after all, for example, for instance, i feel, in addition, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1668.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 323.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16408668731 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92225951727 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.0376972311 49.4020404114 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.2 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5333333333 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1333333333 7.06120827912 144% => 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 : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268705371805 0.244688304435 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835154048679 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0485989592259 0.0667982634062 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163356332253 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0106491836369 0.056905535591 19% => 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: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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