To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In deve

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To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

This statement gives an absolute choice to understand society: to study its major cities. However, it can be more convincing and reasonable if it categorize human societies when considering this topic. And once we do that, we can see clearly that only studying major cities is insufficient for understanding all human societies.
For the well-off societies such as those in the developed countries, most of the populations live in cities. Therefore we can observe the most representative culture and lifestyles in metropolis. For example, in the United States, a country that is industrial based and originated from cities, the most important values and cultures are best presented in cities like New York and Washington. By studying these cities we can learn the creativeness and efficiency of this melting pot. For most of the affluent societies in the world, big cities are the essence of their characteristics.
However, when it comes into developing countries, the condition is different. Many of these countries are not completely urbanized, and thus, their features lie not only in the major cities, but also in smaller cities as well as in rural areas. Take China as an example. Because of the long agricultural history and the nature of being developing, Chinese society is complex, and its characteristics can be found in both urban and rural areas. In fact, many critical issues in China such as the Spring Festival travel and the stay-at-home children are derived from rural rather than urban part of China. In such case, focusing only on the cities cannot depict a whole picture of Chinese society.
Despite the variety of society type, how to define “characteristic” can also influence the outcome. If we take it as the developmental status of a society, we can infer that from the major cities. However, what makes a society distinctive from others is its culture and sub-cultures. Thus, observing major cities can only get part of the cu

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'categorizes'?
Suggestion: categorizes
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...most of the populations live in cities. Therefore we can observe the most representative ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, in fact, such as, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 58.6224719101 68% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1648.0 2235.4752809 74% => OK
No of words: 321.0 442.535393258 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13395638629 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11722368319 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 215.323595506 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.535825545171 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 532.8 704.065955056 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 3.0 0.740449438202 405% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.266710046 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.5555555556 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8333333333 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11111111111 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140046298358 0.243740707755 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0491916241987 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0459053862904 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0948144434872 0.150359130593 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364546703353 0.0667264976115 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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