Some people who have been in prison become good citizens later, and it is often argued that these are the best people to talk to teenagers about the dangers of committing a crime. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is undeniable that crime rates have dramatically increased over the last few years. And education is of paramount importance to alleviate this trend, but the way it can be conducted is often a subject of debate in society. Some people argue that allowing ex-prisoners to speak to teenagers is an effective method to discourage them from breaking the laws. While this may work to a certain extent, I would argue that there are better alternatives to this problem.
It is understandable why some people approve of the idea that ex-prisoners should talk to teenagers about the dire consequences of committing crimes. The key rationale in favour of this view is that teenagers are more likely to accept advice and arouse a lot of interest from someone who speaks from experience because their life stories are vivid and persuasive. These ex-criminals perfectly exemplifies individuals who have to pay for their unlawful activities, which can raise awareness about how to become law-abiding citizens among young people. However, former convicts can appear intimidating and frighten their audience, and they may fail to convey the message subsequently. This is obviously the case that when letting former prisoners talk to teenagers may be counter-productive.
On the other hand, there are more viable alternatives which could be considered to help younger citizens deepen their knowledge about the crime. For instance, policemen should be assigned to school to give talks about the repercussion of crime for students. They are knowledgeable about this topic because of having witnessed the hardships that many prisoners have to go through, but their appearance would not alarm young people. In addition, schools would also set up an extracurricular activity to visit some correctional facilities. Therefore, students could observe by themselves the harsh life in prison and be aware of the consequences of committing a crime.
In conclusion, a talk given by ex-offenders is not the best educational method for student and there still exists some influential way to raise awareness about the dangers of crime.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1786.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 334.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34730538922 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06714279271 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562874251497 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 566.1 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.4179539711 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.066666667 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2666666667 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.275495065444 0.244688304435 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0854503298128 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585562444915 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16063434168 0.151304729494 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0212947680749 0.056905535591 37% => 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: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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