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.

With the development of society, traveling has become more and more popular among both young people and adults. Normally, people prefer to travel in a group and led by a guide, however, I argue that the best way to trip is by making your own plans without any tour guide.

To begin with, traveling without a group which is consist of unfamiliar people is more freedom for you, and enjoying the freedom of trip is one of the most important reason that people want to relax themselves. If you travel with your parents or friends, you can talk with them when enjoying the beautiful scenery. On the contrary, if you travel with strangers, it is almost impossible to express your true feelings. For example, last year, I had a trip with my parents. It was a three days trip in Beijing. We really enjoyed it a lot, such as eating local delicious food, viewing the Place Museum, and climbing the Great Wall. If you travel with others, I am certain that you will lose at least half of the pleasure. So traveling with a group is not a wise way to relax yourself.

Then, by traveling with your own plan, you can save as much money as you can and at the same time, you can also choose what you enjoy most. As we all know, with a tour guide, you have to obey what he has decided to go and you cannot operate your time freely. Even sometimes, you have to waste time on something you never like. For instance, in China, some tour guides always lead customers to some markets which they can get profit from. What’s more, most of the products you buy from these markets are fake or valueless. So I highly do not recommend travelers to choose this kind of groups and tour guides.

Admittedly, for some people who do not want to waste time on making plans, they think choose a tour guide can save a lot time. In fact, though you may save some time, you waste more time to endure a boring trip. It is no doubt that this is not a good choice. And in the modern society, with your smart phones or computers, there are various of knowledge for you to guide your plan.

Due to the aforementioned discussion, I believe that the best way is to travel with your own plans, not with a group which is under the control of a tour guide.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 51, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'consisted'.
Suggestion: consisted
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, really, so, then, at least, even so, for example, for instance, in fact, kind of, no doubt, such as, on the contrary, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 43.0788530466 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1812.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 415.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.36626506024 4.8611393121 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26696151939 2.67179642975 85% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496385542169 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 551.7 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.7718612673 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.2857142857 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7619047619 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38095238095 5.45110844103 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => 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: 0.280088750738 0.236089414692 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0958418907886 0.076458572812 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0731599985752 0.0737576698707 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188042872573 0.150856017488 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519718948699 0.0645574589148 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.0 11.7677419355 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 77.57 58.1214874552 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.07 10.9000537634 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.94 8.01818996416 87% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 86.8835125448 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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