Although sound moral judgment is an important characteristic of an effective leader, it is not as important as a leader’s ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers.

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Although sound moral judgment is an important characteristic of an effective leader, it is not as important as a leader’s ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers.

A good leader needs to have many qualities that he or she will in cultivate among their followers and peers alike. Important characteristics of good leaders include the ability to make sound judgements while including everyone's viewpoint and the ability to command respect from peers. The author of the prompt states that sound moral judgement is not as important as commanding respect from peers which I disagree with. The reasons for disagreement are specified in the following paragraphs.

A good leader sometimes has to make decisions that not everyone in the group agrees with. This implies that they sometimes lose the respect of some of their peers. Even in such scenarios, a good leader is one who thinks of the long term benefits of their decision and uses their moral compass to access the repercussions of their decisions. They understand the fact that sound moral judgements are more important than pleasing everyone and that in most cases a certain subset of their entourage will be upset with them for the decisions they make. They understand the fact that they cannot please everyone always and that sometimes hard decisions need to be taken.

Although for a leader, the respect he or she commands from the group is very indicator of their leadership skills, it is just a litmus test and not the only criteria, while making sound judgements is in fact much more important. A leader can fail in commanding respect from peers by making certain hard decisions cause the peers just see the short term implications of the decisions while a leader has to see both the short term as well as the long term effects of their judgements. A good leader is one who manages to balance both the things simultaneously but gives more importance to making sound moral decisions.

In conclusion, we can say that a good leader is one who commands the respect of his or her peers but also makes sound moral judgements and in fact is not afraid to upset his peers if he feels in his or her conscience that some hard decisions need to be taken.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 430, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...a leader has to see both the short term as well as the long term effects of their judgemen...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, well, while, as to, in conclusion, in fact, as well as, in most cases

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1699.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 353.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81303116147 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61506386396 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 215.323595506 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.42776203966 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 510.3 704.065955056 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => 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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.7861025591 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.692307692 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1538461538 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.76923076923 5.21951772744 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258804081518 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104887622955 0.0831039109588 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0766251687064 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182370147022 0.150359130593 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0524943581369 0.0667264976115 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 48.8420337079 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 100.480337079 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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