More students just having graduated from high school would opt to take a gap year for travel or work rather than go on to college directly. In my opinion, while one year off may harm the students’ study at the university, it is more likely to have more positive impacts.
There may be some disadvantages caused by the remarkable year regarding students’ study. Those who choose such experience generally spend the whole year going anywhere they prefer to go, even traveling around the world. Meanwhile, some of them would be devoted to their daily work. In other words, it is evident that neither would they have sufficient time to review what they have learned before, nor preview what they would be taught after being the undergraduate, leading to the forgetting of obtained knowledge and even failure to keep up with university courses.
However, I believe that these advantages of taking one year off are more critical. Firstly, for those planning to travel around instead of entering the college immediately, the gap year allows them to relieve the pressure resulted from the college entrance examination. What’s more, as an extension of school education, the college-bound students could learn what would be determined in class, such as famous historical and cultural site or local customs all over the world, which substantially widens their visions. As for others who become employees during the one year off, they could earn a considerable amount of income used for college tuition and living expenses, reducing the financial burden of parents. Besides, they gain vital work experience for future employment through the work.
In summary, I argue that students should choose one year off from graduating from school to being the undergraduate， because there will be more advantages than disadvantages if they do so.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, so, while, as for, in summary, such as, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1556.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23905723906 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82250492066 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609427609428 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.5316283924 49.4020404114 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.666666667 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.75 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.25 7.06120827912 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => 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: 0.266166470548 0.244688304435 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113206622229 0.084324248473 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700491550714 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179764982692 0.151304729494 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0445174983957 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => 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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