Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
After completing high school, students should take at least a year off to work or travel before they begin studying at a university.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The practice of taking "gap years" have significantly gained popularity among high school graduates in the recent years. Students take a year off before going to college to travel or work. Although, some might argue that taking "gap years" have adverse effects on young graduates because they might form bad habits or forget some of their skills, some think it has several advantages. In my opinion, students should be encouraged to take one year off after high school graduation due to the following reasons.
First of all, schools are changing into more diverse environments. Students from all around the world come to schools in other countries to explore the culture and in search of new opportunities. For the students who have grown up in rural areas with little racially or culturally diverse environment, it is better if they get familiar with this condition by traveling to a new country. This can help in adapting to a diverse environemnt before going to college where one should only concentrate on their studies rather than trying to get used to living with foreigners.
In addition to that, students can take a year off to work and earn some money. Universities are getting more expensive each year. They have increased the tuition fees and dorm rents in the recent years because more people are interested in higher educations. Thus, if a student has the opportunity to earn and save some money for the university years, this will both make the experience more pleasant and help their parents who mainly pay for their expenses.
Lastly, students can use this period to do internships and gain experience. When students choose their majors, they do not normally have a good idea about the challenges and requirements of that major. Thus, doing internships in those fields can help them decide whether they really like the profession. In addition to that, they can get an idea about the required skills for their major, so they can use the college years to work on them.
In conclusion, taking a gap year has several advantages for the students such as getting familiar with diverse environemnts, saving money, and doing internships in the field of their future major. But, students should consider the disadvantages that it might have, such as forming bad habits or forgetting their acquired skills. If they do not use this time to work, travel or do internships, they might start hanging out with wrong people or wasting time on unncessary activities. They should also study their lessons to stay fresh on subjects. If students can manage it, it will be a lucrative experience.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, lastly, really, so, thus, as for, in addition, in conclusion, such as, first of all, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 15.1003584229 40% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2189.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 435.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03218390805 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68755788159 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51724137931 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 660.6 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3004578822 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.238095238 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 5.45110844103 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => 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: 0.262842695275 0.236089414692 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924825028319 0.076458572812 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618927159877 0.0737576698707 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153498604895 0.150856017488 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0392100441129 0.0645574589148 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 11.7677419355 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.