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.

Everyone has its own preference to travel. Some people chooses to travel alone because they think it’s more fun to explore places according to one’s time availability and choice of places. On the other hand, some people think it better to travel in group led by a tour guide. In my opinion it is far better to travel in group for many following reasons.

First, travelling in group is more cost effective than travelling alone. When one is travelling with many other people then all the expenses such as food, cab fare etc is equally divided among everyone, which makes the trip affordable. I can say this strongly by my own experience. I went on a trip last year to Jaipur in group of twenty people; we hired one local mini bus with a driver along with a local tour guide as well. It was a trip of ten days and so we had booked a five star hotel altogether. In these ten days we visited to all the famous and significant places there and our guide explained the importance of each and everything in detail beautifully. At the end of the trip when I calculated the total money spent on the trip, I was astonished as it was very cheap. This made me realized the benefits of travelling in group as I could have a wonderful trip and still saved money which I later spent on shopping.

Second, traveling in group is also more fun and safe than traveling alone. Many people like me who does not like to stay alone as they get bored, also prefer travelling with many people as it enables a person to enjoy and doesn’t let me feel lonely. Also, travelling alone is not always safe as any miss happening can occur anywhere. Nowadays, there is so much crime, every day we see people get robbed or being killed for money. I am able to recall one incidence that happened with one of my friends. He went to Agra all alone last summer; he had lot of cash with him. Somehow a local person there came to know about it and he started following him. One day when he was coming back to hotel in the night, this thief not just looted him but also injured him brutally. That is why; I believe it is not at all safe to go alone on a trip.

TO recapitulate, although everyone has their own preferences and reasons to choose a particular mode of travelling as everything in this world has its own pros and cons. Likewise, I admit that when a person is going alone then he/she has a lot more freedom, one can go anywhere any time and spend as much time as he/she wants. But if someone who has limited finances and still wants to see incredible places then traveling in group is a good option.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'likewise', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'well', 'such as', 'in my opinion', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.190654205607 0.229887763892 83% => OK
Verbs: 0.190654205607 0.158761421928 120% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0803738317757 0.0866891130778 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0822429906542 0.046263068375 178% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0785046728972 0.0685040099705 115% => OK
Prepositions: 0.104672897196 0.118717715034 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0485981308411 0.0351676179071 138% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.41551607198 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0317757009346 0.0309702414327 103% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0728971962617 0.0887237588012 82% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00747663551402 0.0209618222197 36% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.018691588785 0.0139019557991 134% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2595.0 2387.08602151 109% => OK
No of words: 482.0 408.028673835 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38381742739 5.86048508987 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.48200974243 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.253112033195 0.338922669872 75% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.161825726141 0.251872472559 64% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.116182572614 0.174417080927 67% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0892116182573 0.112833075102 79% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41551607198 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48755186722 0.524397521467 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 56.1631890989 59.2087087015 95% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6684587814 116% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0833333333 20.5533526081 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.5827279515 48.84282405 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.125 120.699889404 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0833333333 20.5533526081 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.541666666667 0.644075263715 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.54480286738 0% => OK
Readability: 36.2659059474 45.7405998639 79% => OK
Elegance: 0.978723404255 1.45489161554 67% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285648629299 0.300154397459 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.1173932467 0.103427244359 114% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.081334882457 0.0752933317313 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.43514428561 0.497263757937 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.135931196003 0.151897553556 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100579914341 0.114077575197 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616314246317 0.0781384742642 79% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.295898564592 0.336927656856 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0374059786412 0.067059652881 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203226758074 0.210909579961 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0623658263284 0.0618886996521 101% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8870967742 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.86379928315 129% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.91756272401 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 8.42114695341 154% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.4623655914 122% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.75985663082 109% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.6433691756 139% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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