One of the major problems facing the world today is the growing number of refugees. The developed nations in the world should tackle this problem by taking in more refugees. To what extent do you agree with this opinion?
There is little doubt that the issue of refugees is a global problem. While it most immediately affects developing nations, there is a strong argument that industrialised countries should help by allowing higher levels of immigration. This is certainly not an easy issue though, because historically immigration has caused as many problems as it solves.
The principal reason why developed nations should help is that we now live in a global village and it is no longer possible to ignore what happens on the other side of the world. This is partly a moral issue and partly because it is in the ec...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 274 350
No. of Characters: 1346 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.069 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.912 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.827 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 72 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.639 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.308 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.32 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.56 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.046 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5