Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be

Scandals attract huge media attention which brings the related issue to public notice and scrutiny. It sparks a debate not only the concerned issue but other issues related with the scandal. Public involvement in a issue forces the authorities to take strict actions against the perpetrators and improve the system to avoid such situation in future. Through these strict actions, scandals create a fear in the public authorities and subsequently scandals acts as a restrain.

Scandals also erode the credibility of the public institutions among public and leads to loss of faith in the established institutions. One such example was the 2G spectrum scandal in India which bought to lamplight a corruption of USD 30 billion by government officials. This act diminished the faith of people in the ruling government in particular and democratic governments in general. The trust deficit led to shameful loss of ruling party in the subsequent elections. The role of media is also of great importance in such instances, a responsible media can use the scandal to educate the people regarding the issue at hand. However this hasn't been the case in many such scandals in which the media houses for their benefit published sensational and controversial stories and diverts the public attention from the main issue.

Scandals can never take the place of reformers and activists in raising awareness about problems. We should nurture a responsible media which would highlight the current issues of importance. Scandals are mistakes of society as a whole. Mistakes do teach us important lessons, but that does not mean we should commit mistakes just to learn from them, prevention is always better than cure.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 214, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...with the scandal. Public involvement in a issue forces the authorities to take st...
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Suggestion:
...thorities to take strict actions against the perpetrators and improve the system ...
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Line 1, column 341, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...rove the system to avoid such situation in future. Through these strict actions, scandals...
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...ities and subsequently scandals acts as a restrain. Scandals also erode the credibility...
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Suggestion: However,
...the people regarding the issue at hand. However this hasn't been the case in many ...
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...nd diverts the public attention from the main issue. Scandals can never take ...
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...reness about problems. We should nurture a responsible media which would highligh...
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... does not mean we should commit mistakes just to learn from them, prevention is a...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'regarding', 'so', 'in general', 'in particular']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.283783783784 0.238963963785 119% => OK
Verbs: 0.128378378378 0.154291517835 83% => OK
Adjectives: 0.111486486486 0.0886310499679 126% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0337837837838 0.0506014161523 67% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0202702702703 0.0449626384858 45% => OK
Prepositions: 0.125 0.123526278965 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0236486486486 0.0379742944744 62% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83469293625 2.82910677849 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.027027027027 0.0316879551592 85% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0014075125626 0% => More particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.121621621622 0.0950106342287 128% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0168918918919 0.0245489744465 69% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0135135135135 0.0157978311181 86% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1714.0 2899.98275862 59% => OK
No of words: 274.0 478.390804598 57% => More words wanted.
Chars per words: 6.25547445255 6.0591788892 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.65681771538 87% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.405109489051 0.369966551584 109% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.295620437956 0.285172536893 104% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.215328467153 0.207245337619 104% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.156934306569 0.136322040163 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83469293625 2.82910677849 100% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 234.298850575 68% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580291970803 0.492565540709 118% => OK
Word variations: 60.6571160283 56.8184620615 107% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 21.1264367816 66% => OK
Sentence length: 19.5714285714 23.7468607788 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.362781551 62.0618507366 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.428571429 143.81877709 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 23.7468607788 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.728815259664 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.87931034483 61% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 7.71264367816 104% => OK
Readability: 49.133472367 52.2641144681 94% => OK
Elegance: 2.37037037037 1.64547068916 144% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312715204014 0.39480681544 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.135911873876 0.11556216369 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0622991059084 0.0736162880345 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.568674238421 0.531340600358 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.108634749237 0.15197228837 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14423222442 0.158818324754 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617957171501 0.0851127212816 73% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.399361426477 0.388921930462 103% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.118074452062 0.0677916285025 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225794942883 0.28015025965 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0624061776326 0.0610219844235 102% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.8591954023 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.30459770115 170% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.96264367816 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 8.10632183908 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.93390804598 178% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 3.04597701149 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 12.0 15.0862068966 80% => OK

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 3.75 Out of 6