Some students take a year off between school and university, to work or to travel. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Nowadays, some high schools leavers tend to go on a trip or be a worker for a year before going to university. The following essay will clarify both sides of the coin, and demonstrate my view that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
On the one hand, it is undeniable that both traveling and working provide a wide range of benefits for students to reap. First and foremost is that since today’s labor market needs skillful workers more than before, working as an apprentice for a year in gap year can be a competitive advantage compared to others. Google, For instance, has recently announced that it tends to hire employees who worked as an apprentice before. Besides, a gap year provides more leisure time. Not only does it give students a chance to get rid of their mental conflicts, but it also helps them to focus on what really they want to be in the future. As a result, they are easily able to deal with one of the most complicated dilemmas in their life, studying at a university or becoming a blue-collar worker.
On the other hand, although a gap year has lots of advantages, students may encounter a few problematic situations. Firstly, as students are not experienced, they may be susceptible to exploit in an exhausting job or run into potential troubles on their trips. Secondly, according to the forgetting rate, a gap year has a negative effect on students’ memory. Therefore, they lag behind their peers unless they receive more pressure for becoming familiar with the knowledge at school again.
To conclude, according to the mentioned reasons, I am convinced that the advantages of having a gap year outweigh its disadvantages.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
... a gap year outweigh its disadvantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1386.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 283.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89752650177 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90184544101 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600706713781 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.7424986185 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.615384615 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06120827912 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198024746838 0.244688304435 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0677840480848 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043621468819 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120235878345 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0146092492161 0.056905535591 26% => 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: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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