Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it a legal requirement.
To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?
Waste that is produced by the humankind has recently become a grave issue that must be addressed. Many claim that laws are needed to tackle the problem and this prospect is in accordance with my opinion. Below the reasons on which my stance is based will be discussed in details.
Firstly, megalopolises and even small towns are being suffocated by waste that is produced by the inhabitants. Moreover, the number of those who live in urban areas keeps increasing steadily and the problem with waste will be only worsening in the nearest future. Thus, to change people’s behavior quickly, laws are needed. A majority of people are law abiding individuals who will likely comply with the passed legislation without protests. Consequently, the urgent situation will be significantly alleviated in a short period of time.
Secondly, some people do not believe that protection of environment in general and recycling of waste in particular are important. They will not probably listen to arguments of others who try to raise awareness of public. Sadly, the number of the unbelievers is high. To illustrate, a study that was conducted by the economist reveals that about 33 percent of questioned Americans do not trust to scientists and do not wish to alter their habitual behavior; they are going to stubbornly continue throwing plastic, glass, paper and organic waste in the same basket as long as they are allowed to do so. Under such circumstances passing new legal requirements seems to be the most efficient way to change the current trend. In fact, laws are rules that must be followed by people whether they like them or not. In other words, legal means are highly efficient in dealing with those who are not cooperative.
To sum up, the world is heading to an imminent ecological catastrophe that may be avoided only by making new laws that will require citizens to start participating to recycling waste. This step will bring quick results and will have an impact on conduct of all categories of citizens.
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Essay evaluation report
In fact, laws are rules that must be followed by people whether they like them or not.
Description: 'them' refers to what: laws or rules or people? Be sensitive to use pronouns.
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 337 350
No. of Characters: 1639 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.285 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.864 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.683 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.824 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.864 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.274 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.475 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.026 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 99, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun claim seems to be countable; consider using: 'Many claims'.
Suggestion: Many claims
...e a grave issue that must be addressed. Many claim that laws are needed to tackle the prob...
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Line 3, column 527, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... be significantly alleviated in a short period of time. Secondly, some people do not believ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in fact, in general, in particular, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 13.1623246493 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1689.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 337.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0118694362 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78492298563 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584569732938 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.1903540624 49.4020404114 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3529411765 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8235294118 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.11764705882 7.06120827912 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218843212825 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.062169538873 0.084324248473 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557424500075 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116173805452 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0509538187815 0.056905535591 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.4159519038 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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