Your class has attended a panel discussion on the problem of long term unemployment among people over 50 and possible solutions to the problem. You have made the notes below:
Ways of dealing with the problem:
- Retraining
- Early retirement
- Job sharing
Write an essay for your tutor discussing two the ideas in your notes. You should explain which way of dealing with the problem you think would be more effective, giving reasons to support your opinion.
An unemployment rate is one of the most significant economic indicators. Alongside inflation, gross domestic products and stock market prices for instance, it provides information about economic state of a particular country. In periods of recession, this rate is higher as both state and private companies often have no other chance but to make some of their employees redundant. Statistics show that the two age groups affected most are youth and people over fifty. The latter ones are those we focus on in this essay, with an aim to suggest a solution to help.
Firstly, let us give some thought to why older people are thought to be the least needed. In my opinion, they are all every employer secretly dreams of: experienced, professional, emotionally balanced, thoughtful, generally settled down - aware of what they want and thus less likely to fluctuate. Not to mention the practical benefits such as no parental or child-sick leave to come.
On the other hand, they are (often falsely) said to expose less flexibility as well as less willingness to accept new ideas and learn new things, especially when it comes to technology. However erroneous this conception might be, I am afraid that this is the reason why these people often face long-term unemployment.
Given these points, I strongly believe that the way out is not an early retirement. Not only would it just boost feelings of nothingness, but also do I doubt there exist funds in state budget to cover such costs. On the contrary, I would recommend all those people to do their best to beautify their CV. Do some retraining courses, keep yourself updated with the latest technology, learn a new language, master your driving skills, go for an accountancy (type-writing, sign language, dog-handling, photography, communication…) courses – all counts. Make use of the time you were, even unfairly, given, as there are days to come when you may be sadly missing it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, so, thus, well, for instance, such as, as well as, i am afraid, in my opinion, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1619.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 321.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04361370717 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85627349723 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.660436137072 0.561755894193 118% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.9650544548 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.933333333 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5333333333 7.06120827912 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0870761590634 0.244688304435 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0268803951653 0.084324248473 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0223823688151 0.0667982634062 34% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0448629757417 0.151304729494 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0223455772063 0.056905535591 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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