TPO-41 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Teachers were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they are nowadays.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

The respect which teachers deserve has always been a controversial issue among sociologists. Although some sociologists argue as if it is a general truth that teachers are acclaimed by society nowadays more than past, I strongly believe that teachers are not well valued by society in recent years. Among countless reasons which can vindicate my viewpoint, I will pinpoint the three most conspicuous ones through following paragraphs.

The first point that juts out of the mind easily at the first moment of thinking about this subject is the fact that, teachers were older in the past than contemporary teachers. In the past years being a teacher would need much more years of study than these days, so teachers in the past were older than nowadays. In spite of traditions, societies respect to old people more than young people. Consequently, young teachers of these days get less attention from the society.

The second point that is worth considering is the fact that students are more informed because of technology in the past few decades. In recent years everybody can get much information by searching on the internet, but in the past, the teachers were the only sources of this information. As a result, by decreasing need to teachers information by students, overall respect to them declines. Furthermore, students are less dependent on teacher's information.

Although the aforementioned reasons are the first ones which cross the mind at first glance, they are by no means the only reasons available. In fact, there is another subtle point which must be borne in mind. To illustrate, I would like to mention the available statistics about this issue. A noteworthy statistics which was held in Iran shows that number of teachers has been increased surprisingly in recent years. Therefore, being a teacher is not a special issue like past years. This indicates that teachers have lost their importance among high valued jobs.

To make a long story short, based on the aforementioned arguments, there are many reasons and examples which can be persuasive enough to agree that teachers are less valued and respected nowadays than they were in the past. Some of them are mentioned above such as; a decrease in teacher age average and an increase in the number of teachers. But that was a story in a nutshell. Obviously, there are many other examples and details, challenging the claim, which are not debated here. All in all, I think teachers deserve more respect by society because they are principles of a prosperous society.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 436, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...hermore, students are less dependent on teachers information. Although the aforement...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, furthermore, if, second, so, therefore, well, i think, in fact, such as, as a result, in spite of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 15.1003584229 199% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2134.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 420.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08095238095 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75929679826 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 212.727598566 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480952380952 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 644.4 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.9505663235 48.9658058833 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.0 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0909090909 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.59090909091 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => 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: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235598521571 0.236089414692 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0665799288611 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0583431834614 0.0737576698707 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140899337037 0.150856017488 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449895523264 0.0645574589148 70% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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