Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be

The issue that the scandals are beneficial in bringing out our attention on problems that no speaker or reformer ever could is a contentious one. While each side has its own strength and weaknesses I accede to the fact the human propensity towards a negative thought or a discussion is more alluring than an positive one. Scandals are no different; humans tend to focus more on the obscure details that were latent.

Firstly, when a scandal happens it is known to everybody then. The contents are no more not opaque. The public is revealed to the problem in a way that clears out all the haziness. For instance, few years back here in India the Rail Minister, was found out guilty in the big Railway scam where in he was found to be corrupt and had done around 12kMillion forgery. It was not cumbered for the media and the people to understand what has been done, how it was all planed and how he colludes with other ministers, who also had their part of share. It was all over the news, so the incident really bring out the obscure details and led people believe how malfeasance a leader could be.

Furthermore, the scandals help out in bringing the sinful veracities of a group to everyone.
On the other hand, scandals can sometimes serve chiefly to distract us from more pressing community or societal problems. At the community level, for example, several years ago the chancellor of a university located in my city was expelled from office for misusing university funds to renovate his posh personal residence. Every new development during the scandal became front-page news in the campus newspaper. But did this scandal serve any useful purpose? No. The scandal did not reveal any pervasive problem with university accounting practices. It did not result in any sort of useful system-wide reform. Rather, it was merely one incidence of petty misappropriation. Moreover, the scandal distracted the university community from far more important issues, such as affirmative action and campus safety, which were relegated to the second page of the campus news paper during the scandal.

In sum, I agree that scandals often serve to flag important socio-political problems more effectively than any speaker or reformer can. However, whether a scandal works more benefit than harm to a community or society must be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

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Average: 7.3 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'be'
Suggestion: be
... that no speaker or reformer ever could is a contentious one. While each side has ...
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Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...t or a discussion is more alluring than an positive one. Scandals are no different...
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Line 6, column 864, Rule ID: NEWS_PAPER[1]
Message: Did you mean 'newspaper'? This word sequence is usually spelled together.
Suggestion: newspaper
...egated to the second page of the campus news paper during the scandal. In sum, I agree ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'for example', 'for instance', 'sort of', 'such as', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.246013667426 0.238963963785 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.154897494305 0.154291517835 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0751708428246 0.0886310499679 85% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0637813211845 0.0506014161523 126% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0364464692483 0.0449626384858 81% => OK
Prepositions: 0.109339407745 0.123526278965 89% => OK
Participles: 0.0410022779043 0.0379742944744 108% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.64104492842 2.82910677849 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0273348519362 0.0316879551592 86% => OK
Particles: 0.00911161731207 0.0014075125626 647% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.120728929385 0.0950106342287 127% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0113895216401 0.0245489744465 46% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0205011389522 0.0157978311181 130% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2358.0 2899.98275862 81% => OK
No of words: 401.0 478.390804598 84% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88029925187 6.0591788892 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.65681771538 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.351620947631 0.369966551584 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.27680798005 0.285172536893 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197007481297 0.207245337619 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.114713216958 0.136322040163 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64104492842 2.82910677849 93% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 234.298850575 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573566084788 0.492565540709 116% => OK
Word variations: 67.5843279756 56.8184620615 119% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 21.1264367816 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0952380952 23.7468607788 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.9884023687 62.0618507366 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.285714286 143.81877709 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0952380952 23.7468607788 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.857142857143 0.728815259664 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.71264367816 39% => OK
Readability: 46.7760361002 52.2641144681 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.55357142857 1.64547068916 94% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.368154588713 0.39480681544 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0913481961257 0.11556216369 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0737735947638 0.0736162880345 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.49213004263 0.531340600358 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.219338314385 0.15197228837 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128961015941 0.158818324754 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085196008756 0.0851127212816 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.267327130804 0.388921930462 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0703279730737 0.0677916285025 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233166088945 0.28015025965 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592511010259 0.0610219844235 97% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.8591954023 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 5.30459770115 302% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.96264367816 20% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 4.0 8.10632183908 49% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 13.0 3.93390804598 330% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.04597701149 33% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 18.0 15.0862068966 119% => OK

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 5.0 Out of 6