To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
Cities have long been a major hub of trends and practices prevalent in a nation. They have often been the representative of their countries - be it New York for United States, Tokyo for Japan, Mumbai for India or Sydney for Australia. They often have a distinct identity of themselves within the country. The prompt suggests that in order to understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study it's major cities. I disagree with the prompt for two main reasons.
Firstly, major cities by it's very nature are cosmopolitan and transient. Being major hubs, they often attract people from all over the world. As such as these cities progress and grow, they become a mish mash of a global culture as opposed to being representative of the culture of the nation. One major instance of this is countries that have majority of their economy in rural areas. India, one such country would seem a industrial hub if going by the impression created by it's major cities. But the fact of the matter is, majority of the population in the country resides in its rural areas and depends upon agriculture as a source of livelihood. Other fact is cities are very transient in it's nature, in order to keep up with the world, it has to constantly update and renew itself in order to continue being a global hub. As such the society itself is left behind in the race to be the best in the world. Visiting cities like New York and San Francisco, one maybe lead to a belief that United States as a whole is a country having a huge predilection towards IT, however such a view would conveniently neglect a well established manufacturing sector and agricultural sector which lies in the midwest part of the nation. These sectors also play a very important role, if not a defining one, in ascertaining the characteristics of American society.
Secondly, the society, it's culture and characteristics originate in the rural areas - it's towns and villages. These places are un-encumbered the ever changing trend of globalisation and often free to continue it's tradition. This phenomena can also be owed to fact that people in rural areas tend to be conservative and are more likely to hold on to their culture than their urban counterparts who are willing to let go for sake of modernisation and personal goals. A perfect example of this is the fact that while the modern homes in Japan comprise of apartments and concrete houses, the rural homes, faithful to its tradition are still built out of wood and contain sliding doors. Another example would be while urban population of India prefer using ceramic and steel plates for food, the rural population prefers biodegradable plates made of banana leaves pointing to their agricultural roots.
I concede that while cities provide a very holistic of the society encompassing it's multifaceted nature. However such an understanding is bound to be inaccurate contaminated by outside influences. In order to understand key characteristics of a society, one must look at it's point of origin - it's roots, the towns and villages.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: However,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, well, while, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2544.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 520.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89230769231 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87058780395 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490384615385 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 823.5 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.0630554311 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.608695652 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6086956522 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.65217391304 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338913741027 0.243740707755 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104004684851 0.0831039109588 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123041744357 0.0758088955206 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214559384457 0.150359130593 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0906838840546 0.0667264976115 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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