It is common practice for some students to take a gap year between high school and university in order to do charitable work abroad in underdeveloped countries. What are the advantages and disadvantages for young people of doing volunteer work?

There has been an ongoing trend of many youngsters from prosperous nations deciding to spend their time doing voluntary work in underprivileged countries. Some of the prominent reasons for this phenomenon will be discussed, before the benefits of both individuals and developing countries are analysed.
There are several convincing reasons associated with this practice. The most significant factor is that doing such unpaid work in poor countries would be a comparative advantage for the young when applying for a job in the future. In other words, in this fierce and competitive job market, a candidate possessing an application file accompanied by only great scores could not be the ideal one that a recruiter is finding; therefore, he or she needs outstanding volunteering experience to be able to surpass other rivals. Another reason that is worth mentioning is that young generations could engender the feeling of community when participating in unsalaried work. Their voluntary efforts help to give prominence to the value of sharing and the sense of social responsibility to secure improved humanity and international awareness about disadvantaged places.
It is undoubted that both the young volunteers and emerging countries could equally gain from this phenomenon. Concerning the young, it is apparent that the aforementioned meaningful work not only brings the doers unforgettable life lessons, gives them hands – on experience but also helps expand their network of relationships. Throughout these journeys of youth, they gradually grow more mature and confident, realizing the diversity of life by getting to know many walks of people. In regard to poorer countries, they may have a chance to raise the living standards of their dwellers. For instance, knowledge related to environment protection or health care which they have acquired from overseas volunteers possibly improves their living conditions afterwards.
To sum up, the requirement of more competitive profile and the determination to support financially disadvantaged countries are the two principal elements that make young people join a wide range of voluntary activities. I would contend that both the doers and the receivers are the beneficiaries of the practice above.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, therefore, well, for instance, in other words, in regard to, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1912.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 345.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54202898551 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13837425822 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.617391304348 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 593.1 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.0486760025 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.571428571 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6428571429 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188246784563 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579971216367 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0564786319977 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107897473657 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032741511354 0.056905535591 58% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.0946893788 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.15 12.4159519038 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.04 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 78.4519038076 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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