Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? After completing high school, students should take at least a year off to work or travel before they begin studying at a university. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Few would deny that learning is a life-long journey. When it comes to the choices for graduated high school students gaping one year to explore more dimensions of life or immediately throwing themselves into the next stage of studying, I would vote for the former for several primary reasons that I will fully explain in the following.
In the first place, taking a gap year is capable of refreshing high school students with a better condition to continue learning. There is no doubt that relaxation plays an essential role in individuals' daily life to help them to reach their goals further. After the long run of exerting themselves to get better scores, high school students need more time to take rest and adjust their conditions. Taking a year to have a journey to wherever they desire to have a look will definitely offer them broader horizons and a better work-life balance.
In the second place, it is only by experiencing more that the students are able to set their personal goals more explicitly. Every student is required to choose their major even before they start their journey in the universities. There are large quantities of occasions when students find themselves disinterested in their major after finishing courses for years and even the whole four years in college. If the regretful students had the opportunity to experience more jobs and occupations through working on their own or observing more in their journeys, they would no doubt know what kinds of education suit them better so that they would be capable of shaping a path to a successful career.
Last but not least, there is no doubt that gaping to work can decrease the economic burden of tuition for students getting into a university. No matter whether a student chooses to do a part-time job at a café or a supermarket, he or she will not only obtain deserved salaries but also learn something out of class. Taking myself as an instance, I had an internship at a local government department during the summer vacation. I was so grateful for the money I earned covering my student loan, which extremely relieved my economic pressure to continue college studies. It is definitely beneficial for students in a tight economy to take a gap year.
Taking all the things mentioned into consideration, I definitely suggest high school students take a one-year gap before continuing their studying at the university with regard to more relaxation, clearer goals in life, and lighter economic burdens.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, second, so, no doubt, with regard to, in the first place, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2078.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 418.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97129186603 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75118369042 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538277511962 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.0383300447 48.9658058833 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.875 100.406767564 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.125 20.6045352989 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214045105247 0.236089414692 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0746153314668 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540713812031 0.0737576698707 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131658025137 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0536532861437 0.0645574589148 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, second, so, no doubt, with regard to, in the first place, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2078.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 418.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97129186603 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75118369042 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538277511962 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.0383300447 48.9658058833 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.875 100.406767564 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.125 20.6045352989 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214045105247 0.236089414692 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0746153314668 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540713812031 0.0737576698707 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131658025137 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0536532861437 0.0645574589148 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.