Traveling is the best way to get your mind off your worries. These days, going on a trip is much more affordable than in the past, which allows many people to do it during their holidays. But, is it better to travel in a group led by a tour guide or by yourself? Some people prefer to count with the tour-guide explanation about every place they visit. However, I believe the trip is more enjoyable when you travel by yourself for reasons I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, it is much more convenient to plan your trip according to your interests. A group of tourists usually do not agree what place to visit first or how long to stay in every touristic point. I will give an example of my own experience. Last year I travelled with a group of five people to New York. I was very interested in museums, especially in the MoMA museum since I am majoring in contemporaneous art. However, the tour guide decided to stay at the museum for just two hours, consequently, I could not appreciate all the masterpieces like I desired. That experience was very frustrating since one of the most important reasons that I went to New York, was to visit that museum, and I lost the opportunity to do it as I pleased.
Moreover, traveling with a tour guide is very expensive and usually is not worth it. I will give an example that illustrates this very well. My cousin John works in a tour company, and he is the one that gives the tour guides. He has a lot of experience in this kind of jobs since he has been working on this for more than ten years. This year I am planning to go to China. I did not want to waste my money as I did last year. This time I asked for my cousin some pieces of advice, and he told me that I should travel by myself. He has already gone to China five years ago, and in order to know about the history and culture of the country, he read a book named “All you have to know about China as a tourist.” I decided to follow my cousin’s advice, therefore I bought that same book yesterday. If he, who is a tour guide, did not recommend me to go on a trip hiring a tour guide, is because it is not worth it. You usually spend a lot of money on that. I prefer to save that money and use it to purchase presents for my family and stay in a better hotel, which will help me to rest better.
In conclusion, I believe that hiring a tour guide is a waste of money and it is not worth it. The best way to travel is having the autonomy to decide where and when you want to go to a specific touristic place.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, well, as to, in conclusion, kind of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 76.0 43.0788530466 176% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 52.1666666667 142% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2061.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 493.0 407.700716846 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.18052738337 4.8611393121 86% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47731708232 2.67179642975 93% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446247464503 0.524837075471 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 667.8 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3436192581 48.9658058833 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.44 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.72 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.56 5.45110844103 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214981142737 0.236089414692 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0623976998876 0.076458572812 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531031157993 0.0737576698707 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145610825395 0.150856017488 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0455342139618 0.0645574589148 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.1 11.7677419355 69% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 6.96 10.9000537634 64% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.95 8.01818996416 87% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 86.8835125448 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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