The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

Essay topics:

The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

Self-knowledge means understanding yourself, your character, your purpose in life

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Average: 5.4 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 83, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...f, your character, your purpose in life.The first step of self knowledge is rejecti...
^^^
Line 7, column 116, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
...e of which is rejection of the familiar.However, this does not mean that one should com...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, really, so, then, thus, as to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 58.6224719101 65% => 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: 1627.0 2235.4752809 73% => OK
No of words: 332.0 442.535393258 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90060240964 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7336042464 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.548192771084 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 704.065955056 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.545942807 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7058823529 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5294117647 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.52941176471 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
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: 0.227948393439 0.243740707755 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0708698542349 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134358151317 0.0758088955206 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166331322414 0.150359130593 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121905300657 0.0667264976115 183% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 100.480337079 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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