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Imagine you have one week to spend on a vacation in a city you've never been to before. Would you prefer to spend the week participating in scheduled activities such as going on guided tours of the city, or would you prefer to spend the week exploring the city on your own, with no scheduled activities?

If people have one week to spend on a vacation in a city that they have never been to, some people prefer to take part in scheduled activities, while others prefer to spend the week exploring the city on their own without any scheduled activities. For me, I prefer to hand around the city and explore it by myself. My reasons are as follows.

To begin with, whenever I visit a new city, I want to learn their language and sharpen by communication skills. And apparently, spending the whole week discovering the city alone can help me achieve the goal. For instance, I once went to Tokyo, Japan by myself two years ago. Since I did not arrange my schedule ahead, I encountered numerous kinds of situations, including getting lost in the city, forgetting to bring my wallet, etc., and such environment helped me learn several useful Japanese phrases. As a result, I sharpen my Japanese skills through interacting with Tokyo people. On the other hand, if I took a trip to Tokyo through a guide tour, the guide might did all the translations for me. Evidently, I may not have that many chances to bump into practical situations that help me sharpen my communication skills if I had a fixed schedule.

In addition, I enjoy relishing exotic food and drink when I visit a new city, and spending the week exploring the city on my own can help me enjoy local food. As an example, I once went to Mexico City for my first time, and I spent the whole week searching for delicious restaurants in the town without any schedule. I figured out that differnt part of Mexico City had different food. For instance, the Chinese section of Mexico city had taco with Kongbao chicken wrapped in it. As a result, I had many opportunities to bump into unimaginable food and appreciate cross-cultural delicacies there. Nevertheless, if I went to Mexico City with my parents, then they might disallow me from enjoying Mexican food because they tend to unconsciously think that spicy food is unhealthy. Apparently, fitting myself into my parents' conservative schedules would not let me enjoy exotic food in a new city.

To conclude, I maintain that spending the whole week discovering the city on my own without any scheduled activities is better due to the aforementioned reasons.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, first, if, may, nevertheless, so, then, while, for instance, in addition, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 15.1003584229 26% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 52.0 43.0788530466 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1871.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 392.0 407.700716846 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77295918367 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81712014661 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 212.727598566 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497448979592 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 597.6 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.51792114695 256% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.4205165818 48.9658058833 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.944444444 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7777777778 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27777777778 5.45110844103 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230656005623 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0732208274183 0.076458572812 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938484381597 0.0737576698707 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185855796884 0.150856017488 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111462105731 0.0645574589148 173% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 86.8835125448 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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