TOEFL essay: Many people visit museums when they travel to new places. Why do you think people visit museums? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

People usually travel to explore a new place, and the best way to know more about a new place is to visit a museum dedicated to that locality. Museums have a collection of multiple artefacts, hence become a consolidated place to view many artefacts of local and historical significance of a particular area. If there wasn’t a meuseum the traveller might have to spend days exploring the country side and talking to local populace to gain the same knowledge. Hence, I believe travellers visit museums when they travel to a new place to understand the historical and cultural significance of an area. In my opinion travellers do this in two ways, first there are museums dedicated to a personality, family or an institution and then there are museums dedicated to society.

Museums dedicated to popular institutions, like a royal family or a great personality like Mahatma Gandhi provide an in-depth knowledge of a specific subject. Often such museums are itself built at a place significant to the subject, which further adds to its values. For example, when I was young I visited Sabarmati Museum. The Museum is located at Sabarmati Ashram, this is the place where Mahatma Gandhi himself used to live. The museum was really good in taking its visitors through the journey of Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle for India’s Independence.

The other kind of museums are ones dedicated to a society, showcasing the traditional culture and values. Once I had travelled to Kerala (A southern state in India), we visited a popular museum there, which showcased the local culture, festivals, tools, way of life etc. This provided a great opportunity to quickly learn about the place I had travelled to.

Just like a library keeps all the books safe for everyone to step in and read. A museum keeps the history secure in its walls for people to explore. In today’s day and age of rapid globalisation, the way of life is becoming more and more similar among different communities. Hence, Museums play a very crucial role for someone travelling to a new place to know more about the local society.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: provides
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...arn about the place I had travelled to. Just like a library keeps all the books ...
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Message: The pronoun 'someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'travels'.
Suggestion: travels
...ms play a very crucial role for someone travelling to a new place to know more about the l...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, really, so, then, for example, kind of, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 9.8082437276 10% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 43.0788530466 42% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1756.0 1977.66487455 89% => OK
No of words: 354.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9604519774 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8401169841 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 212.727598566 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.516949152542 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 618.680645161 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.4728969313 48.9658058833 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.294117647 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8235294118 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.17647058824 5.45110844103 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265876861384 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.09249298459 0.076458572812 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071800856788 0.0737576698707 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156596109025 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0637636141252 0.0645574589148 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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