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?
Nowadays, many high schools make community service an optional element of their students’
curriculums. However, whereas some people believe that this unpaid service should be a
mandatory part of the syllabus, I would argue that, while it is helpful, it should remain the student’s
choice.
One of the most significant benefits of community service for high school students is that such
work prepares students for the world outside of education. This is important because students who
have no awareness of what the working world is like may be overwhelmed when it finally comes
around. For instance, a student who has experience of caring for the aged - a typical community
service task - will be more able to adapt to the needs of elderly customers in a working role than
one who does not. Thus, community work can give students more confidence about life after
school.
However, it is vital that this service be the sole choice of the student, as making such tasks
compulsory may breed resentment towards the work. The reason for this is that people are
naturally averse to doing anything which seems imposed upon them, especially without reward.
Consequently, this resentment may then lead to poor quality work, negatively affecting both the
student and the community itself. In contrast, if the student chooses to do community service for no
pay, this is more likely to produce feelings of self-worth and satisfaction, contributing to better work.
In conclusion, although offering high school students unpaid community service work may help
them transition into the adult world, I believe such work should not be a necessary component of
their programmes as this may foster negativity towards the tasks.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, however, if, may, so, then, thus, whereas, while, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 10.4138276553 19% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1468.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 277.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29963898917 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71106145079 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.58844765343 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.7626325355 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.454545455 106.682146367 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1818181818 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7272727273 7.06120827912 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 18.0 4.38176352705 411% => Less paragraphs wanted.
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: 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: 0.296960449479 0.244688304435 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126534669971 0.084324248473 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0529336858102 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102919372289 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0651834454533 0.056905535591 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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