In some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school and starting university studies.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people who decide to do this.
Taking a gap year is popular in some countries to get variety of experiences or broaden one’s horizon before starting university studies. However, it cannot deny that, students might miss the chance to start their career at earlier age and can be difficult to concentrate on studies. In this essay will discuss advantages and disadvantages for taking a gap year before reaching a reasonable conclusion.
Students are taking a gap year for various reasons, but it is definite to bring the advantageous value of independence. By travelling around the world, students can grasp the wide knowledge about the world as well as understand the differences in culture, customs and tradition. For example, it is very common for Australian students to take a gap year and travel around the world, especially in Asian countries and they usually learn other languages and adapt their cultures before they return to universities.
Furthermore, students are enabling to grasp a practical work experience during the gap year. If students do not choose to travel but chose to work, they can be able to have some practical experiences. By working at companies, they can understand the reality of work and society which can be beneficial to choose for their degrees at universities.
In contrast, the time to take for a gap year can be seen as a wasting. In comparison to students who did not choose to take a gap year, they walked a linear path to university and they can graduate faster than those who chose to take a gap year. In other words, students with a gap year can be a year or two years behind the schedule compared to other students who did not take a gap year.
In addition to this, students may lose concentration after taking a full year resting. If students take a gap year without continue with their study, they might have difficulty to concentrate or study when they back to school. For full one year, students just require to concentrate on work or travel which can remove the study habits of students. In the case of working people, it is very common to see that they have a difficulty to go back to universities to do masters or PhD degrees.
In my opinion, taking a gap year has more benefits than that of drawbacks of time wasting and concentration issues, because those valuable lessons are worth more. Practical experiences and real life experiences are difficult to observe while working at full time however, as a student it is a great opportunity to learn about the life and observe the surrounding environment. By knowing the surroundings and lifestyles, students can easily understand their life paths and that can motivate their studies when they return to universities.
In conclusion, there are both advantages and disadvantages aspects of taking a gap year. The definite benefits are the practical experiences and broaden one’s horizons whereas the drawbacks would be the time and concentration issues.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'well', 'whereas', 'while', 'for example', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'in contrast', 'as well as', 'in my opinion', 'in other words']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.266544117647 0.247107183377 108% => OK
Verbs: 0.161764705882 0.155533422707 104% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0606617647059 0.0946595960268 64% => OK
Adverbs: 0.03125 0.0501214627716 62% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0404411764706 0.0437548338989 92% => OK
Prepositions: 0.110294117647 0.122226691241 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0294117647059 0.0403226058552 73% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.9019514917 2.80594681477 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0514705882353 0.0326793684256 158% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0919117647059 0.0861772015684 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.03125 0.021408717616 146% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0128676470588 0.011925033212 108% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2935.0 1933.35771543 152% => OK
No of words: 492.0 316.048096192 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.96544715447 6.12580529183 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.20517956788 112% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.34756097561 0.374742101984 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.274390243902 0.28420135186 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.207317073171 0.203846283523 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126016260163 0.137316102897 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9019514917 2.80594681477 103% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.037074148 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424796747967 0.56093040696 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.9093621675 60.7387585426 79% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0891783567 131% => OK
Sentence length: 23.4285714286 20.7743622355 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6933405533 49.517814964 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.761904762 127.492653851 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4285714286 20.7743622355 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.761904761905 0.814263465372 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.38877755511 159% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.99599198397 75% => OK
Readability: 50.8675958188 49.1944974215 103% => OK
Elegance: 1.74015748031 1.69124875643 103% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388024740554 0.332605444948 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.131041247389 0.102741220458 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0859940375491 0.0668466124924 129% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.611184691532 0.534860350844 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.111296414265 0.148594505496 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157696691587 0.134430193775 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456828247604 0.0742795772207 62% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.352087287754 0.324371583561 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0568959234294 0.0638462369009 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.23824069144 0.228012699653 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375490784193 0.058150111329 65% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.68436873747 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.41683366733 176% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 5.90881763527 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 2.5751503006 233% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 1.9629258517 306% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 10.4468937876 201% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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