Some people believe that sport is an essential part of school life for children, while others feel it should be purely optional. Discuss these opposing views and give your own opinion.
School sport continues to be a controversial topic in the school curriculum, just as sport itself has become a controversial industry in some respects. There are valid arguments on both sides, which will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
On the one hand, there are considerable number of logical arguments against it. Critics feel that it uses up time which could be better spent on academic subjects such as exam preparation. In addition, they consider it unwise to force children to embrace sport activities although they have no interest in. For instance, some youngsters are just not sporty at all, and should be allowed to study instead. Finally, there are question marks over the wholesomeness of sport itself, with drugging and corruption scandals increasingly common, as we can be seen in cycling at present. Opponents of it believe that this lack of morals sets a poor example to young people.
On the other hand, counter-arguments proposed by proponents in terms of advantages it brings are not only significant in numbers but also rational as well. One such major benefit of sport is that it helps children’s physical development at an important stage. In fact, if all their time was spent studying, they would become unfit and obese consequently their minds would suffer from depression, anxiety, monotonous life, and so on. As a result, it will have significant negative impact on exam performance. Moreover, supporters of school sport emphasize the importance of team building in sports such as football or hockey, which is often felt to be an excellent preparation for adulthood. Furthermore, many people feel that a competitive spirit, so important today, is fostered by sports at an early age. It is notable, for example that many successful business people excelled in sport at school.
In conclusion, I feel that sport should be compulsory for school children, because the positive effect on their mental and physical development outweighs the negatives provided that children are given a wide range to choose from, to ensure their interest is high, and that sport industry itself maintains the highest standards of conduct.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, furthermore, if, moreover, so, well, for example, for instance, i feel, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22701149425 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96148678037 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58908045977 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.9759068514 49.4020404114 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.6875 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.375 7.06120827912 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256125400112 0.244688304435 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0758713261623 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0537232250699 0.0667982634062 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156897299516 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0170100805655 0.056905535591 30% => 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: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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