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.

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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.

Submitted by hasanatpo on Sun, 10/20/2019 - 04:52

One of the best ways to gain precious experiences is to travel. Having the opportunity to see the unknown places for an individual is of great importance. Some people believe that a tour guide should accompany you; On the other hand, I firmly believe that one should travel alone. In the following paragraphs, I will elaborate on this by the focus of freedom and time management in individual travel.

In the first place, I should mention a famous Persian proverb, which states “the journey is the best way to gain wisdom.” I agree that travel should have surprises for everybody; we travel to experience new things and come up with new challenges that ordinary life would not offer. When you have tour guide all the new experiences will be eliminated because the guide has seen the location many times, so he would tell you what to do, and where to go; In this case, you could not experience the novelty of the journey. However, when you travel alone, you are free to choose the next destination or have the freedom to wake up earlier or later.

Moreover, travelling alone has some novelty in terms of finding new places alone. Besides different cultures that you come across in the international journeys, you can meet new life stiles and a different way of thinking. For example, I decided to go to Uzbekistan to see the architectural monuments of the Samarkand three years ago. I have studied architecture; thus, I did not need to have a tour guide to explain to me. Plus, I went to the Bokhara without a tour guide, although it was a little bit confusing to find the way because it has not sufficient guide board. Finally, after 10 hours of travel and asking locals, I find my destination.

To sum up, my friends told me, Hassan you would better have a tour guide, on the contrary, the new experience of meeting local people, and asking from them was a golden opportunity for me to become familiar with their culture and their way of life. This understanding was not possible with having a tour guide, who knows everything about the new city. Based on my knowledge, I would recommend everybody to have some personal journies, without a tour guide, to broaden one's horizon.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 11, column 493, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...without a tour guide, although it was a little bit confusing to find the way because it ha...
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Line 15, column 469, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...rnies, without a tour guide, to broaden ones horizon.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, however, if, moreover, so, thus, for example, on the contrary, to sum up, in the first place, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1825.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 384.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75260416667 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67420276079 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 212.727598566 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526041666667 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 578.7 618.680645161 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.0224264906 48.9658058833 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.0625 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 20.6045352989 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 5.45110844103 156% => 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 : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202346187298 0.236089414692 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0693301057257 0.076458572812 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0385524067754 0.0737576698707 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131354678131 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0150892021464 0.0645574589148 23% => 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: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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