Describe an annual day in your country when you give people special gifts.
In my hometown, Taiwan, we not only have the New year but also celebrate the Chinese New Year based on the lunar calendar. There are plenty of events during the period of Chinese New Year, which lasts about one week; however, the tradition of giving “Red Envelopes” as a special gift is the activity that I look forward to the most every year.
We have used the Gregorian calendar in our daily life after the western culture had been widely transported to East Asia during 19th century; however, we still celebrate festivals based on the lunar calendar, as it represents a whole new start for us. There is a wide variety of activities to celebrate during Chinese New Year such as pasting the spring couplets and having a family reunion. An interesting thing is that “Red” symbolizes “Wealth” in Chinese New Year, so we can observe that stores on the street are usually decorated in red. Moreover, an activity related to gift-giving that is also regarding the color red, is giving red envelopes.
Instead of physical objects that people consider to be normal gifts, like cakes and clothing, we put cash in this red envelope. The money in this envelope reflects the meaning of its red appearance, which is wealth. The elder will give the red envelope to the younger generations in hope that they will become rich in the future. Simultaneously, the younger generations will sometimes send the red envelope to the elder, exhibiting their appreciation for the elder. This significant custom shows our care to our family; moreover, we usually use the cash in the red envelope to buy new things, which symbolizes a new beginning in the Chinese New Year.
To me, giving red envelopes is an important activity in the Chinese New Year. It brought me a great pleasure in my childhood, and now I am able to send my parents red envelopes since I have a job. Without a doubt, gifting red envelopes is vital custom in my life encapsulates my happiness in childhood and my gratitude to my parents.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, moreover, regarding, so, still, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 13.8261648746 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1660.0 1977.66487455 84% => OK
No of words: 345.0 407.700716846 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8115942029 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70421578813 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 212.727598566 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527536231884 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 532.8 618.680645161 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 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: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.2049915209 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.571428571 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6428571429 20.6045352989 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92857142857 5.45110844103 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0742716534088 0.236089414692 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0356169212602 0.076458572812 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0490921665168 0.0737576698707 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0517741174101 0.150856017488 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0171135637562 0.0645574589148 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 11.7677419355 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.002688172 175% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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