Too much emphasis is placed on going university for academic study. People should be encouraged to do vocational training, because there is a lack of qualified tradespeople such as electricians or plumbers. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The debate between academic study versus vocational training has amplified during the few last decades, where the trend has certainly shifted towards vocational training as the preferred choice amongst the modern youth.
In the past, parents have influenced the choice of education their offspring must follow, which was towards an academic stream. As a result there was an abundance of doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc, which was believed to be the best professions to be in. Parents having successfully educated their children to become doctors or lawyers was deemed an achievement and an elevation of social status in their community. Vocational training education at this point of time was deemed to be of a lower class of education, thus ignored.
However, with the change of dynamics towards vocational training education, academic training has somewhat taken a back-seat. There are more institutions providing high quality education involving vocational training in order to provide students with the highest possible skill of their field of choice. These state government funded institutions are becoming centre stage throughout the world as more and more youth are enrolling in such courses.
Therefore, I am in agreement of more people choosing vocational training education as this will cater to the deficit of skilled tradesmen such as professional tilers, painters, builders, etc. Traditionally these programmes involved on-site training from a professional and the students having to undergo a training or apprenticeship period in order to gain the required qualification. However, presently there are more of these courses being offered online with the ease of access and flexibility of acquiring such qualifications. This way more people who aren’t keen academics have the opportunity to acquire a qualification which in par with any academic qualification.
Similarly, academic study should remain for the individuals who have a passion in this field rather than being forced by parents or social pressure. We still need competent doctors and lawyers. Therefore, academics is also considered important and those who choose this field should be trained to become skilled in the same.
In conclusion, I believe even though more people should be encouraged to take up vocational training, academic training should be for those who seek greatness in such fields.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'similarly', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'thus', 'as to', 'in conclusion', 'such as', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.258064516129 0.247107183377 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.168734491315 0.155533422707 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.109181141439 0.0946595960268 115% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0372208436725 0.0501214627716 74% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0173697270471 0.0437548338989 40% => OK
Prepositions: 0.116625310174 0.122226691241 95% => OK
Participles: 0.0620347394541 0.0403226058552 154% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.97729706111 2.80594681477 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0272952853598 0.0326793684256 84% => OK
Particles: 0.00248138957816 0.00163938923432 151% => OK
Determiners: 0.0992555831266 0.0861772015684 115% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.014888337469 0.021408717616 70% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0198511166253 0.011925033212 166% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2394.0 1933.35771543 124% => OK
No of words: 364.0 316.048096192 115% => OK
Chars per words: 6.57692307692 6.12580529183 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.20517956788 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.458791208791 0.374742101984 122% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.362637362637 0.28420135186 128% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.277472527473 0.203846283523 136% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.178571428571 0.137316102897 130% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97729706111 2.80594681477 106% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.037074148 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535714285714 0.56093040696 96% => OK
Word variations: 58.6168147972 60.7387585426 97% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0891783567 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.75 20.7743622355 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.9530466556 49.517814964 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.625 127.492653851 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.75 20.7743622355 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.75 0.814263465372 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38877755511 137% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 59.0137362637 49.1944974215 120% => OK
Elegance: 1.95555555556 1.69124875643 116% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233801127041 0.332605444948 70% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.143504633954 0.102741220458 140% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0712448485464 0.0668466124924 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.61460357986 0.534860350844 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.174649466732 0.148594505496 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0975653875184 0.134430193775 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0527740080591 0.0742795772207 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.250524203142 0.324371583561 77% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.104093535601 0.0638462369009 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144427719181 0.228012699653 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472447564715 0.058150111329 81% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.68436873747 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 5.90881763527 169% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.5751503006 78% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 1.9629258517 153% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 10.4468937876 144% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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