TOEFL essay: Do you agree or disagree with following statement? It is better to be a member of a group than to be the leader of a group. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Essay topics

Doing a job is not easy. When we take up a job, we are hired as team members. Main job of the team members is to come up with ideas, and then there is your boss, whose main job is to check your progress and guide you in every aspect of the job. These members eventually become team leaders! If somebody ask my point of view, I will definitely prefer working as a team member. I have got couple of reasons to support my point of view. I will explain them in the text that follows.
To start with, when we are working as team members we are considered armatures, we are provided guidance and support at every level, which definitely help us learn a lot. Not only that but also in the meeting we can share our innovative ideas and given extra credit for that. Moreover, we do not have much responsibility, so at times we can be care free and have lots of fun while we work. I have an instance from my life to quote. When I started my first job in a small firm, I used to work nine to three. I had many friend and we used to party after that, but later when i got promoted, I had to work for more than twelves hours at times, it started getting hectic. Not to mention the great responsibility that came with it. My other friends had the same routine; job,party, sleep and then repeat but my life went crazy.
Another reason to be mentioned here is that, leader not only have a lot of responsibility on his shoulder but also his life is full of stress, sometimes have to take sleeping pills. Moreover, he have to be vigilant, active and presentable almost all the time. Most importantly, leader has to make sure that everybody is participating fully, they have to monitor the progress of the employees and also has to take every final decision, which is stressful! Not to mention the work he has to do over time. Furthermore, there patience is being tested at every turn. I should mention the story of our team leader Dr. Mumtaz, she is a leader of a group of doctors. Every week she spend three nights in hospital, just in case a serious patient comes during late hours. Not only that she even do not have time spend with her family and at times she have to take citalopram, an anti-depressant. She says her life is a mess!
To sum up I believe it is better to have a happy and care free life by being a member in a group, instead of working for so many hours and throwing your health down the drain, to work as a leader.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 305, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'somebody' must be used with a third-person verb: 'asks'.
Suggestion: asks
...tually become team leaders! If somebody ask my point of view, I will definitely pre...
^^^
Line 2, column 514, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun friend seems to be countable; consider using: 'many friends'.
Suggestion: many friends
...rm, I used to work nine to three. I had many friend and we used to party after that, but la...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 574, Rule ID: I_LOWERCASE[2]
Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
...sed to party after that, but later when i got promoted, I had to work for more th...
^
Line 2, column 770, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , party
... other friends had the same routine; job,party, sleep and then repeat but my life went...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 196, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
...ve to take sleeping pills. Moreover, he have to be vigilant, active and presentable ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 676, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'spends'.
Suggestion: spends
... of a group of doctors. Every week she spend three nights in hospital, just in case ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 843, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
... spend with her family and at times she have to take citalopram, an anti-depressant....
^^^^
Line 3, column 892, Rule ID: SAY_TELL[3]
Message: 'Say' cannot be followed by a direct personal object. Did you mean 'tells'?
Suggestion: tells
...ake citalopram, an anti-depressant. She says her life is a mess! To sum up I belie...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, moreover, so, then, while, as to, to start with, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1959.0 1977.66487455 99% => OK
No of words: 462.0 407.700716846 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.24025974026 4.8611393121 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41260056365 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497835497835 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 634.5 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 9.59856630824 188% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0872201646 48.9658058833 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0454545455 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22727272727 5.45110844103 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
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: 0.170405194221 0.236089414692 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0496794028161 0.076458572812 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0405908849108 0.0737576698707 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117258481988 0.150856017488 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385434211734 0.0645574589148 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.0 11.7677419355 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.31 10.9000537634 67% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.0 8.01818996416 87% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 86.8835125448 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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