TPO-16 - Independent Writing Task 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.

With the development of society, traveling has become more and more popular among both young people and adults. Normally, people prefer to travel in a group and led by a guide, however, I argue that the best way to trip is by making your own plans without any tour guide.

To begin with, traveling without a group which is consist of unfamiliar people is more freedom for you, and enjoying the freedom of trip is one of the most important reason that people want to relax themselves. If you travel with your parents or friends, you can talk with them when enjoying the beautiful scenery. On the contrary, if you travel with strangers, it is almost impossible to express your true feelings. For example, last year, I had a trip with my parents. It was a three days trip in Beijing. We really enjoyed it a lot, such as eating local delicious food, viewing the Place Museum, and climbing the Great Wall. If you travel with others, I am certain that you will lose at least half of the pleasure. So traveling with a group is not a wise way to relax yourself.

Then, by traveling with your own plan, you can save as much money as you can and at the same time, you can also choose what you enjoy most. As we all know, with a tour guide, you have to obey what he has decided to go and you cannot operate your time freely. Also in the last example, I designed a detailed plan about where to go, where to eat, and where to sleep. So with such a detailed plan, we can concentrate on playing and having fun.Even sometimes, you have to waste time on something you never like. For instance, in China, some tour guides always lead customers to some markets which they can get profit from. What’s more, most of the products you buy from these markets are fake or valueless. So I highly do not recommend travelers to choose this kind of groups and tour guides.

Admittedly, for some people who do not want to waste time on making plans, they think choose a tour guide can save a lot time. In fact, though you may save some time, you waste more time to endure a boring trip. It is no doubt that this is not a good choice. And in the modern society, with your smart phones or computers, there are various of knowledge for you to guide your plan. Secondly, safety is also a noticeable reason. When hiking in forests or mountains, it is not unlikely for tourists to get lost, which should be prevented. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to have someone familiar with the region guiding the travelers as well as warning them of potential risks and dangers. It is true but I assert that if you have a detailed plan, it will safe even you travel alone.
Due to the aforementioned discussion, I believe that the best way is to travel with your own plans, not with a group which is under the control of a tour guide.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'consisted'.
Suggestion: consisted
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Even
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Line 7, column 555, Rule ID: ABSOLUTELY_ESSENTIAL[1]
Message: Use simply 'necessary'.
Suggestion: necessary
...h should be prevented. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to have someone familiar with the regio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, at least, even so, for example, for instance, in fact, kind of, no doubt, such as, as well as, it is true, on the contrary, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 43.0788530466 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 52.1666666667 134% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2292.0 1977.66487455 116% => OK
No of words: 520.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.40769230769 4.8611393121 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34279709426 2.67179642975 88% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 212.727598566 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 707.4 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 9.59856630824 219% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.7784545173 48.9658058833 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.1538461538 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.42307692308 5.45110844103 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267149502433 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0847012886019 0.076458572812 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712005953479 0.0737576698707 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190337356049 0.150856017488 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0437476076061 0.0645574589148 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 58.1214874552 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.3 10.9000537634 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.24 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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