In the past few decades, our society has seen rapid changes in different fields like industry, agriculture and science. In some ways people’s life is easier than in the past. But it is usually not true in other ways.
Admittedly, the developments in transportation and the Internet technology have brought with them much convenience to people nowadays. But at what cost? The excess use of cars causes traffic problems, in big cities particularly. In the morning, young people have to get up very early, because they know how terrible the traffic congestion is during rush hours. They may get stuck in the jam and have to stay there unable to do anything but wait. People in old days never had to worry about this. The Internet now has played an indispensable part in our life. We buy things, play games, pay bills and even have dates on the Internet. It seems we can pretty much go about our lives with nothing but a cellphone and an Internet connection. But a recent survey has shown that people nowadays are spending too much time online while too little time accompanying their family. I can always see this in the restaurants. A family may sit together around a table, while everyone is busy checking their Facebook, twitter or WeChat. They don’t even talk! Days have gone when family members chatted at the dinner tables and exchanged their feelings with each other. I don’t think it is a comfortable life if everyone only cares about what is happening all around the world while they ignore what is going on in their families.
In addition, people nowadays are under greater stress than people in the past. Students today spend an average of eight hours everyday in classrooms. When they go back home, they are swamped with their homework. Staying up late is quite common among children in lower grades, much less high school students and college students. Those who have graduated from university are also under pressure. Young employees always complain about working extra hours and having no time to rest and relax. It is true. To make matters worse, there are many layoffs in companies these years. Young people have to keep their nose to the grindstone, just to keep their jobs. Old people these days also have stress. The rapid change in life makes them feel anxious. The feeling that they are left behind by everyone else is so strong that they cannot enjoy their retired life as they are supposed to. I can always see old people pay to learn how to use computers or instant messengers on their cellphones. If they don’t struggle to keep up, it is impossible to connect with their children who may work in another city and seldom come back. People in the past (when my grandparents were young) however, did not have so much stress. Young people did not have to compete so hard to graduate or secure a job (they were usually assigned a job by the local governments and they could do it until retirement). The elderly usually lived with their children and grandchildren, thus they had company.
From what has been discussed above, it is not hard to draw a conclusion that the developments in different fields may cause more severe problems than those they solve, and the stress in today’s society is greater than ever. Obviously, today’s life is not easier, but harder than life in the age when my grandparents were children.
- TPO-06 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- In twenty years there will be fewer cars in use than there are today. 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Television advertising directed toward young children (aged two to five) should not be allowed. 70
- TPO5_ Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment-doing things they like to do-rather than doing things they should do. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 75
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, thus, while, in addition, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 52.1666666667 155% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2793.0 1977.66487455 141% => OK
No of words: 581.0 407.700716846 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80722891566 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90957651803 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52446708774 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 212.727598566 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518072289157 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 850.5 618.680645161 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 36.0 20.6003584229 175% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.8212499206 48.9658058833 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.5833333333 100.406767564 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1388888889 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.91666666667 5.45110844103 35% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 3.85842293907 415% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105875294892 0.236089414692 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0284743977577 0.076458572812 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471237431595 0.0737576698707 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.089156650921 0.150856017488 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0596497395383 0.0645574589148 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.32 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 86.8835125448 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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