You have attended a panel discussion on the qualities that make a good leader. You have made the notes below.
Personal qualities important in a successful leader
• Communicates effectively
• Is persuasive
• Inspires others
Some opinions expressed in the discussion:
“People recognize leadership when they see it”
“Leaders arise from particular circumstances”
“The key to successful leadership is influence not authority”
Write an essay for your tutor discussion two of the qualities in your notes. You should explain which quality you think is more important in a successful leader, giving reasons to support your opinion. You may, if you wish, make use of the opinions expressed in the discussion, but you should use your own words as far as possible.
A boss – hardly could we find any position in any company that would be more hotly debated. Everyone knows what the boss should and should not do, how to make things better and which of his or her mistakes were absolutely unforgivable. It seems that this job is pretty easy as anyone could do it, so why good leaders are so hard to find? In this essay, I would like to have a closer look at what sets the greatest leaders apart.
First and foremost, I believe that there is something innate, something you either are or are not endowed. This “something” is like a special power which enables you not only to get enthusiastic about a subject, but also to share this energy with others. Such a person does not need to use his or her positional authority or any kind of pressure to make people want to join them happily. Persuasiveness or ability to motivate others is how this magical spell is officially called.
In addition, the greatest leaders are usually given by one more charm: the gift of eloquence. In other words, almost all of them show perfect communication prowess. It goes without saying, that even the most brilliant idea has no chance if not conveyed clearly and comprehensively to those who are supposed to follow it. Good organisational skills, sense of purpose, decisiveness, self-discipline and willingness to keep themselves up to date with new trends are also attributes of perfect managers. As icing on the cake, I cannot resist to mention empathy and sense of humor.
To sum up, I believe in born-leaders who know the way, go the way and show you the right door, but then let you open the door yourself and walk on your own.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, so, then, thus, in addition, kind of, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1376.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.68027210884 5.12529762239 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83222859452 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.639455782313 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.7626771354 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2857142857 106.682146367 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139746168215 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.040067378263 0.084324248473 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0333377274807 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0766535743093 0.151304729494 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.022108039215 0.056905535591 39% => 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: 11.1 13.0946893788 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 12.4159519038 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.58950901804 91% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 78.4519038076 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.33 Out of 6
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