TPO-16 - Independent Writing Task 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.

Actually, there are two ways of traveling- traveling on your own or being led by a tour guide in a group. When we plan for a trip, it is always hard for us to choose between these two methods. Some contend think that it is better to travel alone to avoid being controlled by anyone and give us a space of freedom. However, in my opinion, I completely agree that traveling with a tour guide is better due to convenience, safety, and give you a wide variety of knowledge on the culture of a new country that you will visit.

To begin with, it is more convenient when you travel with guide tour since he knows the distention, the direction, and the language. When you travel to a new place, you are not familiar with the landscape, the customs of our destination. Therefore, the guided tour helps you a lot and helps you to save your time to ask other persons, or to search on the internet to get information. For example, last year, I traveled to Italy. I did not know anything about the places that I should visit in Italy, and their language, it was a big challenge for me, but my tour guide helps me whenever I need help since he knew how to speak Italy, and knew the places we had to visit in Italy. The agency offered me a lot convenience.

In addition, following a group guide also guarantee deep understanding of the culture in your destination. Almost all the tour guide received formal training in the local history and culture. Actually, all the time we stay in a group with a tour guide, he will always tell you the customs and detailed history. Therefore, you will learn more about it without much effort. There is proverb saying that” he who has imagination without learning has wings, no feet” reflecting us that the tour guide has a greater impact in our vacation by giving us knowledge about new culture. Moreover, being in a group with a tour guide will make you safe during the whole vacation. The tour guide is familiar with the country or city we visit and thus, we can hardly get lost. Staying in a group makes us less likely to be focused by some bad people. As the result, the best way to safety is to stay in a group with a tour group.

As all things considered, the advantages of traveling with a tour guide are far outweighed than that traveling alone when it comes to knowledge you can be gained and the experiences, convenience, and safety.

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Average: 7.1 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'however', 'moreover', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'for example', 'in addition', 'in my opinion', 'to begin with']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.19878296146 0.229887763892 86% => OK
Verbs: 0.166328600406 0.158761421928 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0588235294118 0.0866891130778 68% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0446247464503 0.046263068375 96% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0953346855984 0.0685040099705 139% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.115618661258 0.118717715034 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0405679513185 0.0351676179071 115% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.55522911655 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0344827586207 0.0309702414327 111% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.103448275862 0.0887237588012 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0141987829615 0.0209618222197 68% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0141987829615 0.0139019557991 102% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2395.0 2387.08602151 100% => OK
No of words: 437.0 408.028673835 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48054919908 5.86048508987 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48200974243 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.272311212815 0.338922669872 80% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.189931350114 0.251872472559 75% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.139588100686 0.174417080927 80% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0938215102975 0.112833075102 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55522911655 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 212.727598566 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464530892449 0.524397521467 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 51.1919821967 59.2087087015 86% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6684587814 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.85 20.5533526081 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4745813382 48.84282405 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.75 120.699889404 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.85 20.5533526081 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.6 0.644075263715 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.54480286738 36% => OK
Readability: 40.8431350114 45.7405998639 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.15894039735 1.45489161554 80% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.448244054294 0.300154397459 149% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.140739774153 0.103427244359 136% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0802946710401 0.0752933317313 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.508563998992 0.497263757937 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.178647620193 0.151897553556 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.177138782752 0.114077575197 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0889847223937 0.0781384742642 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.361023003058 0.336927656856 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0603411887199 0.067059652881 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.298877076936 0.210909579961 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0796087844619 0.0618886996521 129% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8870967742 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.86379928315 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.91756272401 163% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 8.42114695341 107% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.4623655914 81% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.75985663082 254% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.6433691756 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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following a group guide also guarantee deep understanding
following a group guide also guarantees a deep understanding

flaws:
No. of Words: 437 while No. of Different Words: 195 //it means there are some duplicated content.

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 22 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 437 350
No. of Characters: 1874 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.572 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.288 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.371 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 107 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.85 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.58 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.332 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.492 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.244 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5