The era in which we are living has been exposed to an abundance of serious problems. And, one of the challenges to tackle is deterioration of the environment due to various reasons such as air pollution caused by cars. Although cycling is widely known for being eco-friendly compared to other means of transportation, it is not a favorite trend. This essay seeks to investigate the reasons behind this negative development, followed by a few proposed solutions.
There are a plethora of reasons as to why cycling is not popular these days. First and perhaps the most obvious cause is the impracticality of the bicycle in many conditions and situations. Cycling is most enjoyable when everything is perfect. However, almost everyone agrees that it is almost impossible and perhaps dangerous to ride it on rainy days or at night. Furthermore, bicycles are not utilized for long distances for they are neither a convenient means of long-distance transport due to their low speed nor as comfortable as modern cars. Secondly, cycling is a strenuous and demanding activity. Consequently, people need to possess a certain level of physical ability and fitness to be able to use them properly. For example, obese people are scarcely able to use cycles since the superfluous weight renders the task torturous.
While cycling has many flaws that make it disliked, there are a number of advantages that make encouraging the masses to use this practice a noble goal. First and foremost, the government should advertise the role of cycling as a mean of transportation that preserves the environment. People should be informed that using bicycles decreases the number of cars in the streets, hence reduces the emission gases from cars. Moreover, people should be taught regarding the health benefits of cycling. Secondly, authorities can take further steps such as building cycling hubs that provide free bicycles to the public in certain routes for a few hours, which can be very effective, especially considering the ever-growing price of fossil fuels. Last but not least, restricting car passage in some parts of the cities whereas allowing cyclists is another effective method to increase cycling’s popularity.
All in all, given the mentioned reasons, increasing the popularity of cycling is seemingly difficult. Nevertheless, it is feasible if the right methods and motivations such as educating the public about eco-advantages of cycling, offering free bicycle in some routes and limiting other vehicles, are used.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, whereas, while, as to, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 13.1623246493 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2121.0 1615.20841683 131% => OK
No of words: 401.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28927680798 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0182435444 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 176.041082164 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588528678304 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 665.1 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.384803546 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.05 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.05 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.95 7.06120827912 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.165335751231 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0490394578428 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593180691529 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.09324805107 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0265577227029 0.056905535591 47% => 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: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.47 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 78.4519038076 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => 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: 7.5 Out of 9
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