To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Currently, it is debatable whether an effective leader must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards. Some people hold a view that a public official must be ethical and moral since he or she should be the face of the nation. However, I personally argue that having the highest moral and ethical standards cannot be a crucial factor that qualifies an effective leader; his or her achievement should also be the factor that we should concentrate on.
Granted, in some cases, an effective leader does have highest ethical and moral standards. Take George Washington for example. As the first president of the United States, he has been highly lionized as one of the most effective and greatest leader in the country. As he served his first term of President, he denied accepting a salary so that he could maintain his image of selfless leader. Moreover, he did not decided to serve the third term of presidency so that he could establish a precedent for the future presidents. Because of his aspects of moral and ethnic, many American people still praise him as one of the most powerful and effective president of the United States. Therefore, maintaining the features of high moral and ethnic standard can be a prerequisite to become an effective leader.
However, there are some leaders who are regard as an effective leader despite of their low ethical and moral values. To illustrate, the Watergate Scandal is a famous political scandal, which President Richard Nixon involved in. To be re-elected, he and his supporters participated in illicit activities such as wiretapping, illegal break-ins and campaign fraud. Although this scandals revealed that President Nixon was not having the highest moral and ethical standards, he was an effective leader who had various experience in diplomacy and political position. Due to his wide array of knowledge in politics, he was able to end the Vietnam war, and could maintain the amicable relationship with the Soviet Union. Therefore, achievements of a public official can also be an important factor to measure the effectiveness of the leader.
In addition, a leader can be a pivotal force to save a country that is mired in adverse situation, despite of missing the highest ethical and moral standards. For example, Bill Clinton was involved in a sex scandal with the White House intern, and he was almost impeached from the congress. However, he was still considered as an effective leader because of his remarkable leadership. When President first became a president, the U.S. was experience an economic downturn. Because the Cold war was just ended, the unemployment was high, and many U.S. citizens were strapped for cash. However, with his remarkable leadership, President Clinton fostered the economic growth, and the U.S. economy had become stable at an exponential rate. Therefore, simply having the highest moral and ethical aspects cannot be enough to determine the effectiveness of a public official.
In conclusion, maintaining the highest ethical and moral standards should is not an indicator of an effective leader. Other aspects such as an achievement should be taken into consideration.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'have the highest'.
Suggestion: have the highest
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Suggestion: decide
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Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...der. However, there are some leaders who are regard as an effective leader despite o...
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Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
... break-ins and campaign fraud. Although this scandals revealed that President Nixon ...
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Message: The verb 'should' requires the base form of the verb: 'be'
Suggestion: be
...hest ethical and moral standards should is not an indicator of an effective leader...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'third', 'for example', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'such as', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.217162872154 0.240241500013 90% => OK
Verbs: 0.133099824869 0.157235817809 85% => OK
Adjectives: 0.138353765324 0.0880659088768 157% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0490367775832 0.0497285424764 99% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0472854640981 0.0444667217837 106% => OK
Prepositions: 0.108581436077 0.12292977631 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0350262697023 0.0406280797675 86% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84936505657 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.015761821366 0.030933414821 51% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.110332749562 0.0997080785238 111% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0262697022767 0.0249443105267 105% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0105078809107 0.0148568991511 71% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3165.0 2732.02544248 116% => OK
No of words: 512.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 6.181640625 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75682846001 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.427734375 0.366273622748 117% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.33203125 0.280924506359 118% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.224609375 0.200843997647 112% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.16015625 0.132149295362 121% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84936505657 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 219.290929204 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453125 0.48968727796 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 52.2199342765 55.4138127331 94% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6194690265 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.48 23.380412469 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.9547615335 59.4972553346 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.6 141.124799967 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.48 23.380412469 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.56 0.674092028746 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 53.683125 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.57251908397 1.64882698954 95% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.459976031374 0.391690518653 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119782470483 0.123202303941 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.08193529527 0.077325440228 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.504109998186 0.547984918172 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.153894586585 0.149214159877 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.184369942191 0.161403998019 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0951573804797 0.0892212321368 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.45089526957 0.385218514788 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.116382098796 0.0692045440612 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.333637860142 0.275328986314 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0700888521155 0.0653680567796 107% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.