TPO 16- 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.

Big cities today are attracting tremendous numbers of tourists, such as New York, London and Istanbul, indeed, travelling at these cities without a guide is challenging for many foreigners, because of the crowd. It is reasonable to think, for someone, traveling in a group led by a tour guide. Yet, in my humble opinion, independent travel from a tour group is the best way to travel to a new city because of several reasons.

Firstly, although the guide knows the essentially important places the city in which most of the tourists located in, people might not be happy to visit those place. While some enjoy places that tourists-attractive, for others, independence may be more important. Thus, in a group which visits each of these places would be boring for me. Personally, I enjoy casual neighborhoods that regularly visited by locals. Moreover, thanks to google maps, even if I want to visit such attractive buildings, I can find how to go there even by public transportation system of these cities.

Secondly, different minds differ in individual interests, and thus in a group, the agreement on one activity may not be held. Even though the decision dependent on the tour guide, a minority would suffer from the restricted activity decided, rather than having pleasure from it. Even the tour guide is flexible in deciding the next activity whether everybody agrees or not, additionally, the decision process takes too long and shorten the visiting time. I am an energic person who does not prefer to stay while the decision process, and I prefer to walk around or doing activities that I won't be able to do in my hometown.

In conclusion, the best way of traveling, I believe, in big touristic cities is alone independently or in a small group of friends who are not deciding, but doing. In other words, I enjoy casual places that locals go for fun. Furthermore, I prefer to use google maps while doing the activities that I cannot do back at home, rather than adapting the one's decision, indeed the tour guide.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, in conclusion, such as, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 43.0788530466 56% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1684.0 1977.66487455 85% => OK
No of words: 345.0 407.700716846 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88115942029 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8441946829 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.576811594203 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 618.680645161 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2068873468 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.266666667 100.406767564 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4 5.45110844103 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => 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: 0.157725443184 0.236089414692 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0586872964607 0.076458572812 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075834069788 0.0737576698707 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103488496356 0.150856017488 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667206418482 0.0645574589148 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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