In "Lost in America," Douglas McGray argues that America has fallen behind other countries in awareness of the outside world, and blames, among other things, the lack of foreign language study in the United States. How important do you think foreign language study is? Specifically, should colleges and universities require a foreign language for acceptance or graduation? Write an 800-1000 word essay arguing and supporting your views. Make sure to follow the outline you've already prepared for the paper. There is no research required, but if you choose to do research, you must cite your sources and provide a works cited page. Papers must be typed and double spaced, with 12 point font and one inch margins.
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Essay reference notes: This topic is refereed from another essay topic, developed by user: Kuper460
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
In 'Lost in America,' Douglas McGray argues that America has...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: you've
... views. Make sure to follow the outline youve already prepared for the paper. There i...
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Line 1, column 622, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a work' or simply 'works'?
Suggestion: a work; works
... you must cite your sources and provide a works cited page. Papers must be typed and do...
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Line 1, column 696, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'font' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'fonts'.
Suggestion: fonts
... typed and double spaced, with 12 point font and one inch margins.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 13.1623246493 23% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 6.0 24.0651302605 25% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 41.998997996 29% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 605.0 1615.20841683 37% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 117.0 315.596192385 37% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17094017094 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 4.20363070211 78% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63536305513 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 176.041082164 51% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.769230769231 0.561755894193 137% => OK
syllable_count: 184.5 506.74238477 36% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 16.0721442886 44% => 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: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.5381349449 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.4285714286 106.682146367 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7142857143 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.57142857143 7.06120827912 22% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.38176352705 23% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.1988827887 0.244688304435 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0869296573291 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0639290179777 0.0667982634062 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1988827887 0.151304729494 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.056905535591 0% => 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: 11.3 13.0946893788 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 31.0 78.4519038076 40% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 22.4719101124 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.33 Out of 6
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