In some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school and starting university studies. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people who decide to do this.
More and more young people are opting to take a year away from studies either travel and see the world or earn some extra cash by working in order to pay through their education. However, this trend is mostly seen amongst students of the developed countries such as Australia, America or the United Kingdom. Perhaps it is because of the open culture and having the freedom of choice.
On the other hand, in an Asian culture as seen in India, Sri Lanka or even China, this is not the case. Social pressure imposed by the culture they live in, forbid this sort of freedom. Furthermore, parents take it upon themselves to educate their children so that the children are free of any financial burdens but to concentrate on their studies.
The advantages are firstly providing the individual with an opportunity to interact with the world and get to know various cultures through travel. They may not always have the best travel conditions especially when it comes to the under developed countries, however, it is the gaining of experience and knowledge of how different cultures live. Secondly, by taking time off to work makes the young individual appreciate money and manage his/her finances better. Thirdly, the time spent either in travel or work, will make the individual self sufficient, responsible and become respectable adults. The experience gained will take them through university and onto their adult life.
One of the disadvantages with travel are the dangers from the Islamic radical attacking tourists in popular tourist destinations, rage killings or even being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Exposure puts them at immense risk. Another disadvantage would be to give up on university studies because they might end up loving the travel life or not wanting to pursue further studies as a result of getting a taste of money early in their life.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'third', 'thirdly', 'sort of', 'such as', 'as a result', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.258064516129 0.247107183377 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.140762463343 0.155533422707 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0791788856305 0.0946595960268 84% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0557184750733 0.0501214627716 111% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0439882697947 0.0437548338989 101% => OK
Prepositions: 0.129032258065 0.122226691241 106% => OK
Participles: 0.0439882697947 0.0403226058552 109% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.57845884588 2.80594681477 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0293255131965 0.0326793684256 90% => OK
Particles: 0.0058651026393 0.00163938923432 358% => OK
Determiners: 0.105571847507 0.0861772015684 123% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0146627565982 0.021408717616 68% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0058651026393 0.011925033212 49% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1870.0 1933.35771543 97% => OK
No of words: 313.0 316.048096192 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.97444089457 6.12580529183 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20517956788 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.357827476038 0.374742101984 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.281150159744 0.28420135186 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.159744408946 0.203846283523 78% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.105431309904 0.137316102897 77% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57845884588 2.80594681477 92% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.037074148 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597444089457 0.56093040696 107% => OK
Word variations: 66.9345005577 60.7387585426 110% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0891783567 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.3571428571 20.7743622355 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4329859216 49.517814964 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.571428571 127.492653851 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3571428571 20.7743622355 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.14285714286 0.814263465372 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 50.4721588316 49.1944974215 103% => OK
Elegance: 1.79268292683 1.69124875643 106% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322084003824 0.332605444948 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0962521534877 0.102741220458 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0564734450903 0.0668466124924 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.544780140327 0.534860350844 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.116769971557 0.148594505496 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125911039231 0.134430193775 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719204560313 0.0742795772207 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.339312431996 0.324371583561 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0315647933058 0.0638462369009 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219064570407 0.228012699653 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0613713933939 0.058150111329 106% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.68436873747 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.41683366733 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 11.0 5.90881763527 186% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.5751503006 78% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 13.0 10.4468937876 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.