It is common practice for some students to take a gap year between high school and university in order to do charitable work abroad in underdeveloped countries. What are the advantages and disadvantages for young people of doing volunteer work?
Taking a gap year is popular among students especially in developed regions. During a gap year, some students participate in volunteer work in order to gain practical experiences and understand of other cultures while this could delay their studies and which can cause financial issues. In this essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of taking a voluntary work during the gap year.
There are several benefits of taking a gap year and conduct a voluntary work. Firstly, this can provide practical experiences. While students take a gap year, usually they spent those times doing a charitable work so that they can gain diverse skills from socialisation, effective communication and team work. Furthermore, they may able to adapt the differences in culture, tradition, custom and languages by working in underdeveloped nations. Therefore, taking a gap year to do voluntary work brings several advantages to students.
On the other hand, this is not having only advantages. There are some drawbacks of taking a gap year which may involve psychologically and financially. Students may have difficulty to adapt the environments as usually developing countries are lacking of various facilities which can even affect their daily lives. For example, it is very common to see that oversea students experience depression, loneliness and homesick in foreign countries. Moreover, since they are losing of few years of university study, this can delay their profession career lifestyles. In other words, students who took a gap year may start their career later than those who did not take a gap year. As a result of this, psychological and financial issues can be the significant drawback for taking a gap year.
In conclusion, every aspect of decisions has benefits and drawbacks. Taking a gap year has benefit of learning practical skills and understanding of foreign cultures whereas homesickness and delaying in career cannot be avoidable.
Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'therefore', 'whereas', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'as a result', 'in other words', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.278592375367 0.247107183377 113% => OK
Verbs: 0.146627565982 0.155533422707 94% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0909090909091 0.0946595960268 96% => OK
Adverbs: 0.049853372434 0.0501214627716 99% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0263929618768 0.0437548338989 60% => OK
Prepositions: 0.108504398827 0.122226691241 89% => OK
Participles: 0.0410557184751 0.0403226058552 102% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.03084616881 2.80594681477 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0175953079179 0.0326793684256 54% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0909090909091 0.0861772015684 105% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0381231671554 0.021408717616 178% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0146627565982 0.011925033212 123% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1952.0 1933.35771543 101% => OK
No of words: 307.0 316.048096192 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.35830618893 6.12580529183 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.20517956788 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.390879478827 0.374742101984 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.302931596091 0.28420135186 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.237785016287 0.203846283523 117% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.175895765472 0.137316102897 128% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03084616881 2.80594681477 108% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 176.037074148 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534201954397 0.56093040696 95% => OK
Word variations: 55.1228822001 60.7387585426 91% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0891783567 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0588235294 20.7743622355 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9693979772 49.517814964 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.823529412 127.492653851 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0588235294 20.7743622355 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.882352941176 0.814263465372 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 48.3519831385 49.1944974215 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.92105263158 1.69124875643 114% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.475854769389 0.332605444948 143% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0955121426355 0.102741220458 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0795263454848 0.0668466124924 119% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.491722811743 0.534860350844 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.166647064608 0.148594505496 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169327314024 0.134430193775 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795544218999 0.0742795772207 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.350353258244 0.324371583561 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0753920571299 0.0638462369009 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.311958710393 0.228012699653 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741168136914 0.058150111329 127% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.68436873747 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.41683366733 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.5751503006 155% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 1.9629258517 153% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 10.4468937876 134% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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