Some people believe that unpaid community service should be a compulsory part of high school programmes (for example working for a charity, improving the neighbourhood or teaching sports to younger children).
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.
It is considered by some people that high school students should participate in unpaid community services as a required part of high school programmes. Many high schools are already offering students the opportunity to participate in voluntary works, however, these are not compulsory. In my opinion, making voluntary work as part of the high school curricula is a great idea as students can learn many valuable skills.
The spirit of taking up social responsibility can be cultivated by doing voluntary work. When teenagers participate in an environmental or social NGO, they will be exposed to various activities such as recycling house wastes, helping the disabled, poor and elderly, or tutoring younger children. These experiences may help them to recognize and understand the contemporary issues and actions they can take to alleviate the problems, for example, air and river pollution, patients or children from low-income families who cannot afford medical treatment or tuition fees respectively. When their spare time is occupied by these activities, they will no longer waste their time watching television programmes or doing dangerous acts.
Not only that these activities encourage students to take responsibilities, but they will also learn various soft skills, for examples, communication, organisational skills and teamwork. These are valuable skills will improve their resume and make them more employable. They will also learn to respect work as they will understand that money is hard-earned.
Nonetheless, others may concern about the requirement of participating in community services. Some worry that high school schedules may be less flexible compared to that of primary school and university. With many subjects to study for exams and homework to do, plus private tuitions, it may be difficult to squeeze in a few hours for community services, and they may also increase stress levels among students.
In conclusion, with both pros and cons discussed, I think sending high school students to community services is a very good idea.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, nonetheless, so, for example, i think, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1749.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 318.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01082688268 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584905660377 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2453172654 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.928571429 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7142857143 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 7.06120827912 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220312351132 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0791037866721 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0658753552398 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116757935091 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531609244404 0.056905535591 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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