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 their voluntary work in underprivileged countries. This phenomenon is associated with both drawbacks and positive impacts on the students. This essay will discuss on these two aspects and lead to a reasoned conclusion.
On the one hand, no one can deny that dong volunteer work between high school and university brings various benefits to children. The most significant factor is that doing such unpaid work in poorer 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 accompanied by only great scores could not be the ideal one that a recruiter is finding; therefore; he or she needs outstanding voluntary experience to be able to surpass other rivals. Another point that is worth mentioning is that young generations could engender the feeling of community when participating in unsalaried work. It is apparent that the aforementioned meaningful work not only bring the doers unforgettable life lessons, give them hands-on experience but also help them expand their networks or 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.
On the other hand, the adverse effects of a gap year on students may overshadow the positive ones. Recent high-school graduates may have to face serious consequences once they have chosen to be gap-year takers. First, the young can be overwhelmed by the unwanted difficulties of the life out of school campus. For example, physically demanding charitable work can be exhausting for most school-leavers, and travelling to an exotic place may incur unsafe and tiring experiences. Moreover, to the youngsters without firm determination, a life without the discipline of formal schooling can be extremely addictive; and they may decide not to further their study after the gap year. As regards the whole society, this is an alarming issue because such decisions may lead to a scarce intellectual workforce.
To conclude, I personally believe that a gap year is associated with serious aftermaths such as the must of experiencing unnecessarily difficult situations. There are certain humanity values that can be gained, but most of these merits can be acquired in one’s later stages of life.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, as regards, for example, such as, in other words, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2103.0 1615.20841683 130% => OK
No of words: 397.0 315.596192385 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29722921914 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05713973048 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 176.041082164 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591939546599 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 506.74238477 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3051144605 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.705882353 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3529411765 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21804254293 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0650744578551 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667957839959 0.0667982634062 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110547370151 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0614712851338 0.056905535591 108% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.91 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 78.4519038076 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => 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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