Fewer and fewer people walk on a daily basis What are the reasons and how to encourage them to spend their time walking

Essay topics:

Fewer and fewer people walk on a daily basis. What are the reasons and how to encourage them to spend their time walking?

In this day and age, humans are no longer interested in walking. Technological advancements and widespread transport have been the prime reasons for this issue. However, people can be encouraged to take up walking by several effective methods.

To begin with, a myriad of people have lost their walking habits since the development of cutting-edge technology and means of transport. In spite of the fact that modern technology plays an indispensable role in human’ life, it is advisable that this can do harm to people's health. Conspicuously, lifts and escalators are omnipresent in most of workplaces and buildings which can contribute to the laziness of users because they are time-saving and convenient. Additionally, there are countless journey made by cars and motorbikes, even within short distances. Therefore, users tend to get away from physical activities, particularly walking. For instance, instead of picking up children to school on foot, a huge number of parents opt for used cars as long as they are safe and fast no matter the distance.

Some approaches are implemented to stimulate people to walk more often. First, in some low-rise buildings, the construction of stairs should be obligatory, and elevators just only use for the disabled. This method can enhance the physical activities of humans. Second, governments should build more zone for pedestrians, facilitating the frequence of people coming to this place. Last but not least, in order to limit car-using unnecessarily, no-stopping space should be established in the vicinity of schools. Should children accustomed to the habit of walking, their parents will accompany their children on journeys. Therefore, the whole family gets used to regular walking exercises.

To sum up, the advancement of state-of-the-art technology and the common of vehicles are the main factors that contribute to the lack of walking in human daily life. Nevertheless, several useful measures should be carried out to encourage people to walk more frequently.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 268, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'people'.
Suggestion: people
...t is advisable that this can do harm to peoples health. Conspicuously, lifts and escala...
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Line 3, column 339, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the workplaces') or simply say ''most workplaces''.
Suggestion: most of the workplaces; most workplaces
...lifts and escalators are omnipresent in most of workplaces and buildings which can contribute to t...
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Line 3, column 497, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'journeys'?
Suggestion: journeys
...ient. Additionally, there are countless journey made by cars and motorbikes, even withi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, for instance, in fact, in short, in spite of, to begin with, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1713.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4380952381 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11126335876 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612698412698 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 531.9 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.2106320926 49.4020404114 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1666666667 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166660178513 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0534286740364 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579605446178 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115226682778 0.151304729494 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.035465519491 0.056905535591 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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