Hearing the success stories of athletes, one often pays more attention to how they strove for them and is less interested in what god has granted to their bodies. Shows featuring medal winners often tell such stories as how their parents grabbed them from their cozy bed to go exercising at dawn in their childhood, or how much time and effort they put in daily training to keep themselves prepared for games at all times in their career life. Most would believe practice and hard work play key parts in an athlete’s career, instead of natural ability and talent.
Without practice, one would never become an athlete at all, let alone being a successful one. There is no way kids would ever know whether they are going to choose sports as their career in early childhood. It is through actual sports activities, either for recreation or matches on campus, that they grow some interest in sports and pursue their dream sport. After that, they gain confidence from further practicing and playing in more professional games, thus deciding to pick sports as their job.
Without hard work, the success of an athlete won’t last long. Regular practice helps athletes keep their muscle memories. Without it, injuries become inevitable, which would declare their career a sudden death. Also, there may be occasional adjustments to game rules, and rivals’ techniques are constantly evolving. To keep up with such rapid changes, continuous practice is indispensable. Otherwise, an athlete would quickly fall behind.
Sole natural ability or talent are not sufficient, since there are various other difficulties which they cannot cope with. Sports is no stable career. It does not bring an ideal job security. Athletes used to have high casualties in Ancient Greece. Nowadays, they also face such risks as getting injured, being kidnapped by gangs for ransom or manipulation of the score, traffic accidents on frequent sports travels, or losing their job for poor performance caused by the gradual decline in strength as their age accumulates. Hard work helps them focus on games and eases their worries on instabilities. As a result, they become strong-minded and immune to terrible failures or unwanted yet drastic changes in their life.
There is an old saying that practice makes perfect. When on duty for a commercial airline, a pilot has to take at least one flight in any 30 days, or a cumbersome bootstrap re-training is required to pick up. Athletes may get various benefits from their natural ability and talent, but it costs countless effort and a rather strong heart to push their gifts to their limits and keep them in a good shape for games. Throughout the fast-paced success story of an athlete, you will never miss practice and hard work.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Practice and hard work are more important to an athlete s success than natural ability and talent Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 90
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- People today are much better informed about international news than they were in the past 90
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, thus, as to, at least, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2306.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 457.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04595185996 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55657230281 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 212.727598566 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595185995624 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 684.0 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.5685471472 48.9658058833 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0833333333 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0416666667 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.41666666667 5.45110844103 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168453308386 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0634290336724 0.076458572812 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0684660887173 0.0737576698707 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11044744092 0.150856017488 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0376812875523 0.0645574589148 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.002688172 180% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, thus, as to, at least, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2306.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 457.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04595185996 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55657230281 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 212.727598566 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595185995624 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 684.0 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.5685471472 48.9658058833 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0833333333 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0416666667 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.41666666667 5.45110844103 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168453308386 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0634290336724 0.076458572812 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0684660887173 0.0737576698707 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11044744092 0.150856017488 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0376812875523 0.0645574589148 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.002688172 180% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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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.