Write about the following topic.
Buying things on the Internet, such as books, air tickets and groceries, is becoming more and more popular.
Do the advantages of shopping in this way outweigh the disadvantages?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
Over the last-half century, online shopping has increasingly gained popularity with the advent of the internet. While some people opine it comes with certain drawbacks, I believe that its benefits outweigh these drawbacks and I shall support my opinion with the following arguments.
To begin with, one of the numerous benefits of online shopping is the variety of products that consumers are exposed to. There are advertisements of a wide range of products from which consumers can buy without going through the stress of visiting physical stores and enduring hassles of traffic. Although, some people would argue that availability of product variety could influence consumers to buy products they do not need, I am certain that consumers purchase behaviour can be controlled with the help of budgets and savings to ensure that they do not overspend. A perfect example of a prominent online store in Nigeria is Jumia store. They sell all types of products ranging from groceries to appliances and clothing. In addition, they deliver purchased goods to consumers doorsteps thereby eliminating the need to drive to stores and consequently, reducing traffic. Therefore, this is a win for the environment, the government, and most importantly, the consumers.
Secondly, people who argue against online shopping, base their arguments on the impact of false advertising and increased risk of buying fake products. Fortunately, strict controls have been established by the government and regulatory bodies to reduce the impact of false advertising and fake products. One of such regulatory bodies in Nigeria is Nafdac. They are known for blacklisting online stores that sell fake or low quality products to consumers. Moreover, customers are now more careful and alert to ensure that they do not fall prey of online scammers and fraudulent websites.
To conclude, although there are certain drawbacks that are attached with online shopping like credit card frauds and risk of buying low quality products, the benefits of shopping online completely outweigh these problems. However, we must exhibit caution in ensuring that we shop safely and purchase only the items we need.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1837.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38709677419 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80540495349 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557184750733 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 506.74238477 112% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5812181524 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.8125 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3125 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1875 7.06120827912 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.102788856192 0.244688304435 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.034690804062 0.084324248473 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0257060228033 0.0667982634062 38% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0639347810372 0.151304729494 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00801221811378 0.056905535591 14% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => 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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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.