Society today is marked by an increased need for leaders to drive and motivate people towards achieving goals. The prompt questions as to whether the best way to prepare the youth towards attaining such leadership skills is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation or is it through competition. Indisputably, competition serves to make a person stand out amidst a more generic crowd. However, in my opinion, leadership skills are best manifest in a person through his cooperative psychology, rather than a competitive one.
Industries today are marked by increased activities which extend across domains. For example, a software company also needs to understand the customer needs and market trends in order to make their products even more versatile and competitive. Hence cooperation between different teams across domains and even time-zones are instrumental in determining the company's commitment to societal needs. As such, leaders across different business units of corporate entities today, often hold relevant meetings to discuss feedbacks, and adapt their course of actions accordingly.
Even globally, cooperation is an important factor in dealing with challenges that the world encounters today. Ranging from problems such as global warming to scientific ventures such as studying the universe, nations are striving towards attaining common goals through collaborative action. Hence governments today need people who will not only be open to others' opinions but also present adequate skill to spearhead committees, containing disparate people, towards attaining goals through cooperation and insight.
At the national level, introduction of new policies are subjected to debate and discourse by the ruling and opposition parties to adjudge the efficacy of the proposed policies. However, while dealing with problems which plague a nation such as widespread diseases, economic disparity among others, politicians, who are representatives of the people and hence can be referred to as their leader, are often seen to be bipartisan in their dealings. Such incidents show that any solution to a common problem can only be attained through cooperation amongst the concerned parties.
Indisputably, for a society to sift the best out of the more generic folk and to identify individuals with innate leadership attributes, competition may be deemed necessary. However, indentification of such individuals through competitive actions might inevitably lead to obscuring of their cooperative traits. As such, the idea of cooperation is instrumental in determining a leader while that of competitiveness is peripheral.
In conclusion, I strongly agree with the prompt in that in preparing its young people for leadership in government, industry or other fields, a society must adhere to instilling in them a sense of cooperation rather than competition. While competition necessarily helps in determining an individual's ability when put under duress, it does guarantee that the individual will strive towards achieving goals using collaborative approaches. However, today's needs require cooperation between disparate groups and as such forms the basic attribute of a leader who leads such groups into achieving their goals.
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 14, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Society today is marked by an increased need for leade...
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Line 1, column 134, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...s achieving goals. The prompt questions as to whether the best way to prepare the youth towar...
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Line 2, column 244, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ts even more versatile and competitive. Hence cooperation between different teams acr...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 291, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...mon goals through collaborative action. Hence governments today need people who will ...
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Line 4, column 311, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...ic disparity among others, politicians, who are representatives of the people and hence...
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Line 6, column 288, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...ion necessarily helps in determining an individuals ability when put under duress, it does ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, still, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2752.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 483.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.69772256729 5.05705443957 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68799114503 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10156398796 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52380952381 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 859.5 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4769417718 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.6 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.15 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2 5.21951772744 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217938451863 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687039813001 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0793182034489 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117996372499 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673275957513 0.0667264976115 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.8420337079 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.08 12.1639044944 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.53 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 144.0 100.480337079 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 14, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Society today is marked by an increased need for leade...
^^
Line 1, column 134, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...s achieving goals. The prompt questions as to whether the best way to prepare the youth towar...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 244, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ts even more versatile and competitive. Hence cooperation between different teams acr...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 291, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...mon goals through collaborative action. Hence governments today need people who will ...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 311, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...ic disparity among others, politicians, who are representatives of the people and hence...
^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 288, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...ion necessarily helps in determining an individuals ability when put under duress, it does ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, still, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2752.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 483.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.69772256729 5.05705443957 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68799114503 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10156398796 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52380952381 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 859.5 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4769417718 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.6 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.15 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2 5.21951772744 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217938451863 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687039813001 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0793182034489 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117996372499 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673275957513 0.0667264976115 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.8420337079 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.08 12.1639044944 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.53 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 144.0 100.480337079 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.