TOEFL essay:When people succeed, it is because of hard work, Luck has nothing to do with success.” Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific and examples to explain your position.

Everybody wants to achieve success in the market environment. However there is no agreement about the importance of luck in achieving success since there is people who thinks that luck is important while others believe that this element has no relation with achieving success. Personally, I understand that luck is also important because there is a series of factors in our lives that are not only guided by rational aspects and hard work.

Some might say that been successful has no relation with been lucky. In this context, there is a speech that says people needs to work hard to achieve a great career and nothing comes easy. The idea that luck could also be important in someone's career is considered unfair since it might be considered a way to reduce and ignore the efforts that someone had to achieve an excellence level in his career. Besides, many people consider luck as an element used by lazy people or persons that failed in their professional objectives and used luck as some sort of excuse.

While the above perspective might have good arguments, the perspective stated is not convincing. One needs to consider that people are effected by a series of random facts that are not possible to be completely controlled. In this sense, luck has a influential role in everybody's career even considering that this aspect in general is not the most important one since hard work makes the whole difference in becoming successful.

Recently, David Letterman interviewed the former president of the United States, Barack Obama. Obama surprised everybody when he declared that even been someone that worked hard trough his career he considers himself a lucky person that was able to occupy the Oval Office. Letterman, also a person very successful in his career, declared that he felt that luck was a factor present in his entire professional life too. When we listen two persons that achieve a high level of success like Obama and Letterman saying that luck had a considerable role in their careers we see that this element can make a big difference in any field of work.

In conclusion, we can say that luck is connected with success. This element could not be considered the major aspect in becoming successful since hard work is truly necessary and in general the most important element. However, we cannot forget that random facts could have influence in our lives.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
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Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, however, if, so, while, in conclusion, in general, sort of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.0286738351 227% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1986.0 1977.66487455 100% => OK
No of words: 402.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94029850746 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5925745001 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47263681592 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 639.0 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.1361221661 48.9658058833 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.823529412 100.406767564 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6470588235 20.6045352989 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.29411764706 5.45110844103 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175891800104 0.236089414692 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0642437272298 0.076458572812 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0441051854055 0.0737576698707 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108666962759 0.150856017488 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340894643329 0.0645574589148 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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