You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their usual doctor.
Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
From the beginning of human history, there were records showing how humans used herbals and other natural therapies to treat disease and to enhance physical fitness. This is called alternative medicine and treatment, and it is still practised by some people around the world today. However, some people think this has numerous negative effects on human health compared to conventional medicine. In my opinion, I totally agree with this viewpoint, and I will explain the reasons in the following paragraphs.
First, there are numerous statistics showing the number of people who have suffered from alternative medicine in their bodies, because most of this has not been scientifically proven and acknowledged. For example, cases of liver damage were reported by the UN hospital due to the use of a type of herbal medicine deprived from a plant called kava-kava. In addition, the effect of various herbal medications is questionable, such as ginseng, which is often used to improve physical and cognitive performance; however, there is no clear scientific evidence to support this use. In fact, in some kinds of herbal medicine, scientists have found elements that cause dermatitis or carcinogenesis. Secondly, the unconventional treatment also lacks convincing proof of beneficial effects on human health. For example, acupuncture caused heart and lung damage or even fatality was recorded in many cases.
Admittedly, several alternative therapies may have positive outcomes for human health. For example, massage therapy can decrease stress, anxiety, and depression. However, compared to the consequences of this treatment, people should take precautions when making the decision of whether to choose this treatment instead of conventional medical treatment.
In conclusion, alternative medicine and treatment have a lot of negative impacts on human health. Besides, their positive effects are not totally supported by scientific evidence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, for example, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, such as, in many cases, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1658.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.65870307167 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96949510837 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59385665529 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7777722636 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.533333333 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5333333333 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4 7.06120827912 147% => 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 : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.2064992898 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0729126138294 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631422902095 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141251251115 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324252874386 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.55 12.4159519038 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.