Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
With the development of transportation, it is getting more and more convenient for people travel around the world and experience different culture. Recently, whether the best way to travel is in a group by a tour guide is under heated discussion. Admittedly, there does exist some pros of hiring a tour guide, I prefer self-conducted trip. The reasons are as follows.
First of all, hiring a tour guide not only costs extra money bust also wastes valuable trip time. As is reported by Chinese Tourist Bureau, it usually costs more than one thousand yuan hiring a guide on average in China. In addition, the guide makes advertisements about certain commodities and leads us to consume unnecessary things or services. My trip to Yunnan province is just an example to the point. I was led to a jade store and had no choice but spent two hours visiting the store. What's more, the guide would not let us continue our trip unless we bought enough amount of souvenirs. At last, I lost both wealth and time in that journey and determined that I would never have a conducted travel again.
Secondly, there are many alternative ways for us to explore a place, which are all extremely brilliant. Living in a local house through online applications such as Airbnb is a good choice. In that case, we can have deep conversation with the local host and exchange ideas about versatile cultures as well as viewing beautiful sights at that place. My trip to San Diego, California serves as a perfect instance. I spent three-day vacation with a native woman, Cathy, who gave tons of good suggestions of traveling plans and local cuisines. What's more, being a well-educated senior, she also gave me advice about my career and life. With her help, I had an unforgettable memory in SD, which I will cherish for my whole life.
Lastly, in addition to living with a local host, making detailed plans in advance and travel all by ourselves is another good option. While searching online about the destinations, we can know more about local tourist spots and lyrics. Besides, a deep understanding of its history and culture will be gained through this process. My friend, Sophie, had a trip to Beijing, the capital of China, on her own. After she came back, she introduced the construction styles, origins and history about the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, etc. to me. She could explain every detail as if she was a professional. When I asked why she knew so much only by a trip, it turned out that she had made the plan by herself and improved a lot through this procedure.
In conclusion, taking all the reasons above, including saving expenditure, having a through experience and extending our visions, I firmly disagree with the statement that the best way to travel is led by a tour guide.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2326.0 1977.66487455 118% => OK
No of words: 485.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79587628866 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68781373065 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 212.727598566 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575257731959 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 724.5 618.680645161 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.7180424005 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.4615384615 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6538461538 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.19230769231 5.45110844103 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166971496083 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0420842521379 0.076458572812 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642793203118 0.0737576698707 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126099249731 0.150856017488 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101009928247 0.0645574589148 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 11.7677419355 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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