Some young people look forward to a year 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.
A highly controversial issue today concerns whether young people take a gap year as an opportunity to travel and expand their horizons before starting work or school. In this essay, I am going to examine this question from both points of view and then give my own opinion on the matter.
On one side of the argument, some people argue that the benefits of spending one year travelling considerably outweigh its disadvantage. The main reason for believing this is that young people can break the limit of themself, experience new things that provide them with valuable new skills because a gap year has the potential to teach them much more valuable lessons than a school setting ever can. One good illustration of this is many universities report that students who take a gap year return to school with a better maturity mindset and better creativity. It is also possible to say that students can take time out of school and further studies during this time that can help them feel reenergized and prepare ready to tackle their classes and work. Since it is much harder to get the chance to take such much-needed time for themself when they enter their career.
On the other hand, it is also possible to make the opposing case. It is often argued that taking a year to travel is an expensive waste of time. People often have this opinion because they think that students will be one year behind their friends when their knowledge in school may have diminished that making it harder for them to keep up with the pace in studying. And the same goes for people who work when they could miss out an important early start in their career. A second point is that gap year requires a ton of extra planning. A particular example here is if you want to be a volunteer, you have to decide where you want to go, for how long, how will you deal with the language barrier and will you fit into the culture there?
In conclusion, I believe both arguments have their merits. On balance, however, I feel that spending time for the gap year is reasonable. This is because I believe the gap year process is effective or not depending on how you experience it and use your time wisely.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, second, so, then, i feel, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 7.30460921844 233% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 51.0 24.0651302605 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1789.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 389.0 315.596192385 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.59897172237 5.12529762239 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41658097345 2.80592935109 86% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514138817481 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 553.5 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.619103482 49.4020404114 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.8125 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3125 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.125 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.382698668639 0.244688304435 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127042072606 0.084324248473 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0659169753256 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242160120507 0.151304729494 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0483908926532 0.056905535591 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 50.2224549098 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.7 12.4159519038 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.58950901804 87% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
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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