(improved ) Many governments think that economic progress is their most important goal. Some people, however, think that other types of progress are equally important for a country.Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Essay topics:

(improved ) Many governments think that economic progress is their most important goal. Some people, however, think that other types of progress are equally important for a country.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Economic progress is seen by many politicians as their main aim. At the same time, some aver that attention ought to be paid not only to economic progress but to other types of advancement as well in even proportions. Below both prospects will be discussed and author’s opinion will be given.

On the one hand, maintenance and buttressing of economic progress often has the highest priority for many governments because strong and vigorous economy benefits a society in many ways. For instance, there are a plethora of jobs available, employees’ salaries are growing, revenue of businesses keeps increasing and overall standards of living are rocketing. Consequently, if economy is kept in a great shape, the voters will be contented and thus will vote for the elected officials who have brought them the prosperity. From this prospect government’s attitude to that economics is reasonable.

On the other hand, it seems that progress should not be neglected. Although those other types of progress are less propelled by the mass media and they are not usually mentioned in speeches, such progress as technological one has been having a great impact on the humankind for many centuries. In fact, this advancement has shaped our cities, homes and even the way we live. For instance, all means of transportation and communication are fruits that have been brought to the mankind by technological progress. Moreover, there is scientific, moral and other types of it and they all play a considerable role in maintaining healthy functioning of a modern society. Thus, all types of progress seem to be evenly important.

Finally, in my opinion, although there is indeed a wide range of progress that has effect on the way the humans live, I think that they aren’t equally important because economy underpins functioning of any country. Moreover, it is essential for other types of progress because if there is a sluggish economy, there will be no resources available to develop new technologies or moral codes.

Votes
Average: 7.1 (3 votes)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, if, moreover, so, thus, well, for instance, i think, in fact, in my opinion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1707.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 328.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20426829268 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0585924427 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551829268293 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5443385515 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.8 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8666666667 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 7.06120827912 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289684510684 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0951923345509 0.084324248473 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575764181394 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175875337346 0.151304729494 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385892479005 0.056905535591 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.11 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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On the one hand, maintenance and buttressing of economic progress often has the highest priority
On the one hand, the maintenance and buttressing of economic progress often have the highest priority //consider 'buttressing ' as noun
On the one hand, maintaining and buttressing economic progresses often has the highest priority //parallel maintaining and buttressing

, such progress as technological has been having a great impact
, such progress as technologies have been having a great impact

all means of transportation and communication are fruits
all means of transportation and communication are the fruits

Finally, in my opinion,
In my opinion,

a wide variety of progress that has effect on the way
a wide variety of progress that have effects on the way

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flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Different Words: 180 200

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 329 350
No. of Characters: 1636 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.259 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.973 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.838 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.933 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.42 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.533 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5

Hello
I have a question.
- it seems that progress and attention are uncountable.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/progress_1
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/attention

I know that uncountable nouns may become plural in case I speak about particular examples but I tried to speak about the idea of advancement or progress in general.

- maintenance is noun and buttressing is ing form to use as noun e.g. understanding. why is it a mistake.
if it is possible, I would like to get a link to an article to learn about my mistakes.

- Finally, if there were no grammatical mistakes, what score would I get?

Thank you.

1. Yes, if we consider they are uncountable, some of the sentences are correct.

2. if we consider 'buttressing ' as noun, then we need article 'the', and need to change 'has' to 'have'

On the one hand, maintenance and buttressing of economic progress often has the highest priority
On the one hand, the maintenance and buttressing of economic progress often have the highest priority //consider 'buttressing ' as noun
On the one hand, maintaining and buttressing economic progresses often has the highest priority //parallel maintaining and buttressing

3. The Unique words percentage is lower than the average, so maximum it can reach 7.0

Unique words percentage: 0.551829268293 0.561755894193 98% => OK