Some people think high school graduates should travel or work for a period of time instead of going directly to study at university. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience
The importance and popularity behind the ideology of high school graduates working or travelling for a while before enrolling into the university, is becoming increasingly a global practice in recent times. This phenomenon has a plethora of merits and demerits (pros and cons) which will be discussed in this essay with excerpts from The New York Times and Daily Times magazine.
To begin with, the benefits derived from working prior to enrolling into the university are enormous. One of which is the exposure gathered by working with people already established in the industry. Consequently, the student can be well informed on the appropriate subject to study at the university. According to the New York Times magazine, a survey of graduates from Manchester University was done in 2019. It was recorded that seventy percent of the best graduating students were those with prior work experience. The other merit is that such students better appreciate the value of money, which reduces frivolous spending. For instance, during my time at the University of Benin, I judiciously utilized the meagre resources I had because I worked as a receptionist with Nestle Nigeria immediately after my high school.
On the flip side, the attitude of working immediately after high school comes with its own setbacks. Firstly, the propensity of losing focus is tremendous, thereby having a catastrophic effect on the student’s academic career. As an example, my elder brother could not further his education because he got too acquainted with money when he chose to work after his senior school certificate. Furthermore, the impact of influencing the lifestyle of students is yet another demerit. Adjusting their lifestyle when they finally get into the university possess a big challenge. A report from the Daily Times magazine has it that sixty percent of crimes perpetrated on campuses were by students who had worked before enrolling into the university.
As a closing remark, it can be said that ideology of working or travelling by high school students before entering the university has its merit such as informed career decision making and better appreciation of the value of money. However, the demerits which include distraction from academics and increased crime cannot be overlooked as they have far reaching consequences on the life of the student.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, so, well, while, for instance, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1986.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 376.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28191489362 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88774435353 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553191489362 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 2.52805611222 396% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.1493219626 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.823529412 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1176470588 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29411764706 7.06120827912 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175313084803 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0564677330779 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452646493685 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115209703504 0.151304729494 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0407268921383 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => 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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