A high school requires their students (aged 16-17) to choose an activity to attend in the summer holiday between 11th and 12th. Which of the following do you think is more beneficial?-taking part in the university-level course (for example, the course rel

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A high school requires their students (aged 16-17) to choose an activity to attend in the summer holiday between 11th and 12th. Which of the following do you think is more beneficial?

-taking part in the university-level course (for example, the course related to the major field they want to study in)
-visiting museums and historic places with teachers and other students and then write a paper about it

It is a general tendency that education plays an important role in our daily life. Today, there are two types of activities presented for the high school students to select, one is taking the curriculum hold in class and the other is an attending an extra-curricular activity outside of class. The answer differs considerably from individual to individual. As far as I am concerned, I express my appreciation with the latter. My arguments for these points are listed as follows.

To start with, taking a reasonable amount of classes outside of school can broaden one student's horizon. There are many aspects a student cannot simply obtain from the classroom. Take my own experience for an example, I studied in an architecture major when I was back in high school. Undeniably, the courses in the classroom cultivate us the basic knowledge and skills of our profession as our foundation. But without attending some activities outside of the class, our imagination and creativeness can easily be framed by the courses. Once, our design teacher took us out to the museum to appreciate artworks. Although the paintings and drawings are not directly connected to our major, the story and pigment selection actually brought a great impact on me. I was greatly inspired by some projects, and it influenced my further works in the architecture field.

In addition, when stepping outside of the classroom, it is the best opportunity to take the practice from the textbook and transfer it in reality. As a student, we spent our majority of time in the classroom obtaining knowledge and learning concept, but rarely can one have the chance to perform it in the classroom. To illustrate, if one student is majored in history, by visiting historic architecture sites and cultural villages can provide you real emotion and scenes that can not be experienced through a picture or within the classroom. Therefore, analysis writing in one's paper can be greatly improved.

Admittedly, everything has two sides and some may claim that taking courses that are closely related to one's field of study can be more practical. For instance, for students that study in engineering or computer science, it seems unnecessary and a waste of time by taking them out to green open parks or famous landmarks. However, in the accelerated society today, students have more pressure on their shoulders since the competition among peers is relatively fierce. By having a few breaks can support them the motivation in the long run. As an old adage goes, "Taking a break is for accomplishing a longer journey."

All in all, Taking into accounts of these factors, taking extra-curricular activity is more beneficial for the high school students, since it can provide them a variety of perspective, experience the practices in real life, and motivation for the long journey. That is not to say that other opinions are totally out of merits. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that my points of view are fully capable of firmly supporting my position.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, for instance, in addition, to start with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.0752688172 198% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2533.0 1977.66487455 128% => OK
No of words: 498.0 407.700716846 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08634538153 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97969572871 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 212.727598566 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530120481928 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 801.9 618.680645161 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.4035955352 48.9658058833 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.541666667 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 5.45110844103 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184808793514 0.236089414692 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0452551914848 0.076458572812 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.054421341607 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108106218636 0.150856017488 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375413831503 0.0645574589148 58% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.01818996416 114% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 86.8835125448 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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