Some people believe that competition drives young athletes to perform at their best, while others believe that competition discourages those who are not athletically talented from participating in organized sports.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own and explain your reasoning for your position. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address both views presented.
The author claims that there are two beliefs about the relation between competition and athlete urge; competition will drive athletes to their best and will daunt athletes away. It is undoubtedly true that competing in a tournament is causing stress to both mind and body, so athletes may use the pressure as positive energy to keep them from falling behind or may use it as a negative deterrent.
The first belief tends to play on competition as positive energy for athletes to make them put more determination to win. The challenge of winning stronger opponent and the position at the top of the game will always ignite the spirit of an athlete to gain as much advantage as one could for the match ahead to win. However, not all player have the same competitive trait in them, so joining race may not have sufficient power to push these players to their limits and improve themselves.
Differently, the second belief claims that competition daunts an untalented athlete. Winning factors in every sports game are confidence, skill, and patience. If a player loses skill factor, the most important factor, other factors will be corrupted. Missing all the winning factors, a player will feel a significant discouragement and not putting any efforts to gain skills to compete with others. Contrarily, a player who lose winning factors still got a strong will to win; a player will act according to the first belief with a belief to put a player to the limit.
Comparatively, both beliefs are valid in a specific condition; a player who has a competitive trait, and a player who is a deadbeat. These two beliefs tend to be a side of a coin, and only one side at a time can be shown. A player without skill who have a sturdy competitive trait will perform at best, ignoring the result, but if a player does not have that trait, the competition will deter this player.
In summary, both beliefs are aligned with my reasoning; these beliefs are acting like a flip-flop to each other, and the only one can be valid with the same condition. The condition of my thinking is that a player can only be competitive or not competitive.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, still, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1764.0 2235.4752809 79% => OK
No of words: 371.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75471698113 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7027689514 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 215.323595506 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487870619946 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 549.0 704.065955056 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.0991007548 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.6 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7333333333 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.93333333333 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15699892085 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0621082841533 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611898750603 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101403034082 0.150359130593 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0611733684027 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 100.480337079 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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