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 widespread of the transportation systems that connect the different countries around the world, people become more interested in traveling and exploring new places. while some people prefer to travel alone, I utterly prefer to have a tour guide for the following reasons.

To begin with, there are no doubts that the tour guide knows the country better than the tourist, so, he can help them to discover the beautiful landmarks of the country. Also, he can provide them with the essential information about the hotels and the low-price restaurants. so, they can save their budget. Therefore, hiring a guide is cheaper than traveling alone, this is in contrary to the general belief of most of the tourist. For instance, last year I traveled to Malaysia with my friend, we opt to go in a group with a tour guide, the guide showed us different packages with various prices, so, we were able to choose one that fits with our expenses. He was a local citizen, so he took us to very amazing places, it is true that we can make a search on the internet in order to get informations about the popular places in that country but by having a guide we can also know the best ways to go to these places with lower cost.

Secondly, one of the crucial reason that makes me prefer to get a tour guide is to avoid getting lost in a foreign country especially if I do not know the local language. Thusm traveling with a guide is safer and help you to avoid any unnecessary danger. I remember that five years ago, I decided to visit China with my cousin. We did not hire a guide because we thought it will cost more money. So, one day we went to downtown and when we wanted to come back to the hotel we were not able to recognize the way, it was a trouble situation for us since we cannot speak Chinese and the people there were not able to speak English or Arabic. But, thanks to the recent technology, because we used Google translator, through this programme we wrote what we want in English then translate it into Chinese and showed it to the taxi driver. Thus, we finally back to the hotel. Had we got a tour guide, we would not be trapped in such situation. Consequently, we decided not to travel to any place where the citizen cannot understand our language unless we hire a guide.

In Conclusion, traveling alone can be more convenient sometimes, but even though, having a guide is much safer, and help the person to save his budget.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, it is true, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 445.0 407.700716846 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.48988764045 4.8611393121 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45619519512 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 212.727598566 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519101123596 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 638.1 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.0044058354 48.9658058833 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.0 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7222222222 20.6045352989 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.55555555556 5.45110844103 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.122080933203 0.236089414692 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0432261899482 0.076458572812 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0349454637044 0.0737576698707 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0731740094661 0.150856017488 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307791194432 0.0645574589148 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.06 10.9000537634 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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