Architecture usually enhances the beauty of a city or a country in many premises, and yet, many of them are being modernised to the extent that they are losing distinctive features structurally and artistically. Such occurrence happens due to urban development and it should be seen as a worrisome thought because buildings are starting to lose a sense of identity nowadays.
Cities are getting urbanised for a better development for the country and for improved quality of life. Major cities such as Singapore, London and New York City, would either expand its area by introducing new housing precincts or upgrade their landscape by improving their infrastructure and utilities. Smaller cities may not be able to compete with these mature metropolis, but the city government thrive to increase the number of construction projects such as houses, bridges, and road, in order to raise its economic performance. For instance, the city of Miri in east Malaysia is expanding well for the past few years with new residential areas, new shopping complexes and renovated roads, showing great progress in modernising it into a vibrant municipality.
However, the more structures becoming modern, the more they become hard to differentiate that it the city or the society has started to lose its identity and uniqueness as the number of modern premises has become greatly dense. Although there are many old, stylish architectural structures that remain iconic and untouched like the Westminster Palace and Big Ben in the heart of London, filthy abandoned buildings are commonly demolished and replaced with newer construction such as shopping malls without leaving any cultural sentiment from the fast-changing modern society. For example, the size of the famous water village in Bandar Seri Begawan was reduced recently due to the fact that a portion of the village was substituted into a recreational park at the river bank for leisure activities, causing many residents of that area to displace to new homes, and hence Brunei felt a slight loss in its cultural identity.
To conclude, many urban infrastructures are being built in cities for the sake of boosting their economy and upgrading people’s lives, but on the other hand, a lack of distinguishable and meaningful buildings can result negatively in a loss of architectural and cultural identities.
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- Although more and more people read the news on internet, newspapers will remain the most important source of news for the majority of people. Do you agree or disagree? 73
- The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. 73
- In the past, buildings often reflected the culture of a society, but today all modern buildings look alike and cities throughout the world are becoming more and more similar. What do you think is the reason for this, and is it a good thing or a bad thing? 84
- An increasing number of schools provide tablets and laptop computers for students to use in school, replacing books and other printed materials like exams and assignments.What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend? 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, may, so, well, for example, for instance, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1988.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 375.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30133333333 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02337442089 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 639.0 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 5.43587174349 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 16.0721442886 62% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 37.0 20.2975951904 182% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.3262746172 49.4020404114 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 198.8 106.682146367 186% => OK
Words per sentence: 37.5 20.7667163134 181% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.3 7.06120827912 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.162606895532 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0645996227571 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464873320004 0.0667982634062 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0916521321758 0.151304729494 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0422630243879 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.3 13.0946893788 170% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 25.46 50.2224549098 51% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.9 11.3001002004 167% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.57 8.58950901804 123% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 78.4519038076 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.8 10.1190380762 166% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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