Some young people look forward to a gear of travelling, a "gap year" before they begin work or university and see it as a chance to broaden their horizons. For others this is an expensive waste of time. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Originated from western cultures, gap year, a year of travelling after school, is becoming familiar even in eastern cultures, such as in China, Japan or Vietnam. The attitudes towards this practice are controversal due to its mixed impacts.
On the negative side, there are some obvious unfavourable consequences of gap year. Many people argue that school leavers are unable to afford this kind of trips, their parents are inevitably the one who pay for these expenses, which is somehow a burden to the whole family. Another demerit is the waste of one year instead of going to college. It is undoubtedly time-consuming and may affect the graduation process of the students.
However, supporters of this belief can announce a list of beneficial results of gap year. The first in-favoured outcome is that this trip can give a chance for newly school graduated students to meet people of diverse social and cultural backgrounds, which they have never done during their school years. As a result, they can gain a deep understanding of human beings and society, thus, may become more tolerant to differences. Another benefit is the likely improved health of travellers as they have time to relax and enjoy themselves after a long period of schooling.
Taking both points of view into consideration, I personally support the practice of gap year due to hugely obvious benefits it brings. To solve the financial matter of travelling, students can do part-time work during this year to alleviate their parents’ financial burden. In terms of late graduation, it can be marginal in comparison to their long-life career. In brief, the benefits of gap year obviously outweigh the adverse consequences.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, so, thus, in brief, kind of, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => 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: 1435.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 276.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19927536232 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88426506794 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619565217391 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 506.74238477 88% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9812692042 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.5 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 7.06120827912 75% => 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 : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206947547419 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0658577307955 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0326283669677 0.0667982634062 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118030853469 0.151304729494 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0325476426543 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.33 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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