Independent essay
It is becoming increasingly popular to have a year off between finishing school and going to university. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?
In my country, it is general practice to take a year off after finishing school. There are many opponents and proponents of this approach. Nevertheless, I feel that the disadvantages of it pale in comparison with the benefits that students receive. I feel this way for several reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, children at schools are overwhelmed with tasks and extra-curriculum activities. They do not really have time to just stop and think about their future. Moreover, it looks like almost all decisions are made based on intuition and without thorough analysis. In this case, a year break after school allows them to comprehend what they like to do and what they dream about. My experience is a compelling illustration of this. At high school I thought that I would link my profession with microbiology. Definitely, it was just the influence of my grandfather who worked for the biological research institute. But I decided that I had to take time and understand my real desires and passion. Fortunately, I realized that I really want to be a quantum engineer. Now, 10 years after graduating from university, I can say that it was my best choice I have ever done.
Secondly, you have to utilize your youth as efficiently as you can. And I feel that take a break and dedicate this time to yourself is the best way to do so. I remember my brother's story. After school, he was invited to travel to Europe for six months. It was kind of an adventure but he decided to accept this offer. And even nowadays he tells us details about this trip, and he always smiles when shows us the photos from this magnificent journey.
On the other hand, the opponents of this kind of break can say that you will lose a whole year and this time should be spent on learning. However, my counterargument will be that it is much more harmful to spend all your life doing something that does not really inspire you.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that the mentioned advantages outweigh the negative effects of having a year off after graduating from school. Mainly, this is because in the modern world students have to have time to relax and understand what they want to do.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 873, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...it was my best choice I have ever done. Secondly, you have to utilize your youth...
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Line 4, column 261, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'an' after a classification term. Use simply 'kind of'.
Suggestion: kind of
...travel to Europe for six months. It was kind of an adventure but he decided to accept this...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, moreover, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, i feel, in conclusion, kind of, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 70.0 43.0788530466 162% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1815.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 387.0 407.700716846 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.68992248062 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76202129359 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529715762274 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 562.5 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.352266617 48.9658058833 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.625 100.406767564 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.125 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.91666666667 5.45110844103 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215732388102 0.236089414692 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0576501915843 0.076458572812 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551733988716 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135449550566 0.150856017488 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0649323941098 0.0645574589148 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 11.7677419355 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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