Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university, to travel or gain work experience. Do you think this is a good idea or a waste of time?
Before enrolling in university, more and more students are eager to seek a journey to explore their inner self and learn more about the world. While some people see this practice as a wise idea, others believe that gap-takers are wasting their time on education. In my opinion, I strongly side with people who believe that a gap year is a beneficial chance for students to improve their soft skills before returning to college and increase their job recruitment in the future.
Traveling to different develop students' soft skills. In this regard, students often choose to participate in voluntary works to gain more experience in communication and team-working. Besides that, researchers have clarified that students who are willing to take a gap year can perform better communication when either working alone or in a team than those who do not participate. Furthermore, it is undeniable that this communication skill would be so handful for students when applying for a job.
Boosting job recruitment opportunities is another beneficial aspect. Many employers have agreed that gap-taker students would have more practical experiences about their jobs rather than those who just have a plain degree. To illustrate this, my uncle failed a job interview because he had not taken a gap year despite his high GPA in university. Moreover, putting down an activity from a gap year in your CV would likely attract employers who want to hire people with a broad knowledge about the position that they offer.
Admittedly, spending an extra year seems to be time-wasting. People would argue that learning would be a faster way to pursue your dream; however, this belief would be unrealistic if the students had no intention of what they wanted to do. Hence, taking a gap year would help students spend time on look into their souls and search for their interests.
To sum up, the benefits of taking a gap year trumps the belief of time-wasting. I strongly believe that a gap year can push ones’ limit to the extreme for the purpose of extending their own social knowledge proving themselves in front of the job recruiters’ eyes. In the future, taking a gap year would be a dominant trend that all students should take into their consideration before going straight off to college.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, moreover, so, while, in my opinion, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 7.30460921844 233% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1900.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 380.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79559408005 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547368421053 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 506.74238477 115% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.2228025384 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.764705882 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3529411765 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293051810207 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10018289081 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551875310253 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16687892825 0.151304729494 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434521462268 0.056905535591 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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