TPO-14 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People benefit more from traveling in their own country than from traveling to foreign countries.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Traveling is something that everyone would like to experience from a very young age. We are introduced to other countries first by watching television programs held to inform us of different cultures, languages, food and sights other places have. Some contend that traveling in their own country benefits the people more since they can save a lot of money. However, I completely agree that visiting countries other than your own are extremely interesting. Some travel on business, others to go on holiday. Students also travel to study, to take a post-graduate course at a well-known University. Others travel to educate themselves, to learn more about the country they are visiting, places of interest, like art and history museums, to experience their culture.

To begin with, traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks; it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work, and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It’s nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress-free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us to recharge our “batteries” by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It’s a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.

Secondly,traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don’t have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.

Finally,New experiences increase our resourcefulness by living situations you would never encounter at home; this is a great experience for you when you come back to your routine. I have noticed that people who traveled a lot in life were ready to embrace change and have a natural ability to overcome problems that others would frown upon. For example, back in 2006, I had a chance to travel to the USA. It was a big challenge since I had to leave all my family members and my friends behind. I took the decision to travel. I learned in the USA a lot valuable things that I could not be able to learn it If I stayed in my country such as searching for my apartment alone, and cooking for myself. These experiences are really beneficial for my future.

As all things considered, while it is true traveling in our own country can benefit our country economically but traveling a broad has a lot of merits rather than traveling in our own country when it comes to gaining experience, knowledge, and learning a new language which leads us to get success in our life. Also, traveling abroad helps to break our regular routine, helps us to relax, and relieve our stress.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'really', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'as to', 'for example', 'such as', 'it is true', 'to begin with']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.187234042553 0.229887763892 81% => OK
Verbs: 0.2 0.158761421928 126% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0751773049645 0.0866891130778 87% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0482269503546 0.046263068375 104% => OK
Pronouns: 0.116312056738 0.0685040099705 170% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.090780141844 0.118717715034 76% => OK
Participles: 0.0368794326241 0.0351676179071 105% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.76581822786 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0553191489362 0.0309702414327 179% => OK
Particles: 0.00141843971631 0.00188951952338 75% => OK
Determiners: 0.0624113475177 0.0887237588012 70% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0156028368794 0.0209618222197 74% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0141843971631 0.0139019557991 102% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3585.0 2387.08602151 150% => OK
No of words: 623.0 408.028673835 153% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.7544141252 5.86048508987 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.99599519102 4.48200974243 111% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.30658105939 0.338922669872 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.224719101124 0.251872472559 89% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.158908507223 0.174417080927 91% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.112359550562 0.112833075102 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76581822786 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 296.0 212.727598566 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475120385233 0.524397521467 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 58.7943287736 59.2087087015 99% => OK
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6684587814 150% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0967741935 20.5533526081 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4078640188 48.84282405 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.64516129 120.699889404 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0967741935 20.5533526081 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.548387096774 0.644075263715 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.5376344086 132% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.54480286738 126% => OK
Readability: 42.5686843059 45.7405998639 93% => OK
Elegance: 0.863813229572 1.45489161554 59% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332352650965 0.300154397459 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0791324566816 0.103427244359 77% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0734235136077 0.0752933317313 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.464424480672 0.497263757937 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.139655845452 0.151897553556 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110786831048 0.114077575197 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0535718428557 0.0781384742642 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.303181589108 0.336927656856 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0508031316536 0.067059652881 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210718889174 0.210909579961 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0348591158186 0.0618886996521 56% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 24.0 11.8870967742 202% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.86379928315 26% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.91756272401 122% => OK
Positive topic words: 19.0 8.42114695341 226% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 2.4623655914 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.75985663082 109% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 13.6433691756 161% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Less content wanted. Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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flaws:
No. of Words: 627 350

Don't always use 'I' as the subject of a sentence:
I had a chance to travel to the USA. It was a big challenge since
I had to leave all my family members and my friends behind.
I took the decision to travel.
I learned in the USA a lot valuable things that
I could not be able to learn it If
I stayed in my country such as searching for my apartment alone, and cooking for myself.

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 23 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 31 15
No. of Words: 627 350
No. of Characters: 2824 1500
No. of Different Words: 293 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.004 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.504 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.515 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 184 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.226 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.661 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.452 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.263 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.442 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5