TPO-16 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Travelling and exploring the different countries of the world is one of the most interesting things that many people are willing to do. I certainly agree with the statement that the best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. I will explore the reasons for my stance in the following paragraphs.

To begin with, when we travel to a completely different country and culture, it is vital to have someone with you who is more experienced with the culture and habits of this people. That would save you a lot of possible troubles and misunderstanding. It also eliminates the chances that someone take advantage of you when he realizes that you are a foreigner. For instance, I witness here in Egypt on daily basis some foreign individuals from western countries who pay double price for services just because they provider of the service are aware that this stranger does not know anything about the real price of services in the countries and he usually tries to avoid any problems with natives even if he is fully aware that he is being deceived. I think have a tour guide will save the you all possible trouble and facilitate such kinds of dealing with the people of the country you are visiting.

Furthermore, as a citizen form different culture or maybe even religion, you may be encountered with set of values that completely do match yours. Being alone in a place that you are not familiar enough with habits, traditions and culture could put you in very embarrassing situations. Another vivid example of this point is form my country Egypt, which a favorable destination for many European people. In my country, especially in the countryside, people are very conservative about they way they wear and behave in public. As a result they consider that wearing some types of clothes that reveal a lot of the body is an insult to their culture and tradition. They will tend to be unfriendly because they have this unreal thought that you are not giving their culture and tradition the needed respect. Having a tour guide will make all these possible situations vanish and on the contrary, your experience will be more enjoyable when he tells you about the different culture and traditions in these villages.

in conclusion, I believe that travelling with a group led by a tour guide will enhance your chances of enjoying your time and avoid all the possible misunderstanding you could face.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, if, may, so, for instance, i think, in conclusion, as a result, on the contrary, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1994.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 416.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79326923077 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70279123063 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490384615385 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 633.6 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 71.3607691593 48.9658058833 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.625 100.406767564 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 20.6045352989 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0625 5.45110844103 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208672536677 0.236089414692 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0857282767212 0.076458572812 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103901730499 0.0737576698707 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168637338358 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0825341743365 0.0645574589148 128% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 11.7677419355 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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