The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007

Essay topics:

The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007.

The bar chart illustrates the hours spent doing seven various types of activities (going to pubs/discos, watching TV, shopping, doing homework, doing sport, watching DVD’s, bowling) every week by youth in Chester between 2002 and 2007.
Overall, the most popular activity over the period given was watching TV, whereas bowling accounted for the least favorite. Going to pubs/discos and shopping experienced increase of number of hours teenagers spent on these activities. The other pursuits showed decrease in hours, except watching DVD’s which fluctuated.
Teenagers spent 25 hours each week watching TV in 2002 which increased to about 37 hours in the final year. Both, going to pubs/discos and shopping more than doubled in hours from 5 to over 15 and from over 5 to exactly 15 respectively.
While teenagers occupied more than 10 hours doing homework in 2002, the number decreased to just over 5 in 2007. Likewise, playing sport fell from exactly 10 hours to around 3. Bowling was under 5 hours throughout the entire period and declining by about 4 hours in total. The number of hours dedicated by adolescents watching DVD’s was only 10 hours in first and final years but reached a peak of over 15 hours in 2004 and 2005.

Votes
Average: 9.3 (4 votes)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, likewise, whereas, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 1.0 5.60731707317 18% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 33.7804878049 124% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.97073170732 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1030.0 965.302439024 107% => OK
No of words: 205.0 196.424390244 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0243902439 4.92477711251 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.78388967377 3.73543355544 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58980750538 2.65546596893 98% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 106.607317073 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536585365854 0.547539520022 98% => OK
syllable_count: 270.9 283.868780488 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.36585365854 30% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8063611555 43.030603864 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.0 112.824112599 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 22.9334400587 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.6 5.23603664747 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295125326795 0.215688989381 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116509659335 0.103423049105 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0787384282685 0.0843802449381 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188730062726 0.15604864568 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0756678236438 0.0819641961636 92% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.2329268293 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 76.56 61.2550243902 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 10.3012195122 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 11.4140731707 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.06136585366 100% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 40.7170731707 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.9970731707 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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