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.

Travelling is one of the most enjoyable things in our lives. That is what people usually do when they take vacations. there are different purposes of travelling such as visiting family or friends, relaxing or to learn new things about a different place that where they live. There are also different ways of travelling some people prefer to travel alone to have some time for themselves to relax and clear their thoughts, some other people prefer to travel in groups led by a tour guide. While I believe it can not be generelized for all purposes of travelling, I tend to agree that travelling in a group is more useful for the following concerns.

First of all, hiring a tour guide is essential specially in historical or scientific places. In these kinds of places a tour guide is needed to get the right information from a reliable source. It is more convenient than searching on the internet or reading many books to gather some information about that specific place. This can add to the person's knowledge in general and encourage him to read more about the information given by the tour guide. Also, the tour guide makes it easier to find the best resturants in that place as well as the best things to do during free time.

In addition to the knowledge that a person can get from a group led by a tour guide, It is safer to be in a group than it is to be alone. It is less likely to get lost in a group and if something bad happen the rest of the group can help. It is also cost effective to travel with friends as you can save on your hotel or by renting one car for the whole group instead of renting a car just for one person. In addition to that, organizing the trip might be easier if it is done by a group of people, for example, someone can be responsible for renting the car, another one can be responsible for the hotel and another one takes care of the tours.

Finally, On the socializing level, It is more beneficial to travel with your friends and try to make new friends during the trip. Usually people are more relaxed on vacations and they have more time to work on friendship that strengthen the relationship between each other. Furthermore, a lot of activities require many people not just a single person such as beach volley ball. To summerize, I think it is more fun to be in a group than travelling alone.

In conclusion, travelling alone can be beneficial if a person needs some time alone to think about something or for any other reason, but in general i still agree that travelling in a group led by a tour guide would make the person gain more benefits from the trip.

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Average: 8.3 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 120, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
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Line 3, column 345, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...hat specific place. This can add to the persons knowledge in general and encourage him ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'i think', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'in general', 'such as', 'as well as', 'first of all']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.201941747573 0.229887763892 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.176699029126 0.158761421928 111% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0834951456311 0.0866891130778 96% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0543689320388 0.046263068375 118% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0446601941748 0.0685040099705 65% => OK
Prepositions: 0.143689320388 0.118717715034 121% => OK
Participles: 0.0466019417476 0.0351676179071 133% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.50664394937 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0466019417476 0.0309702414327 150% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.114563106796 0.0887237588012 129% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0194174757282 0.0209618222197 93% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00776699029126 0.0139019557991 56% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2616.0 2387.08602151 110% => OK
No of words: 480.0 408.028673835 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45 5.86048508987 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.48200974243 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.26875 0.338922669872 79% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.179166666667 0.251872472559 71% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.127083333333 0.174417080927 73% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.1 0.112833075102 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50664394937 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.425 0.524397521467 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.5651197661 59.2087087015 80% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6684587814 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.2631578947 20.5533526081 123% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5805460863 48.84282405 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.684210526 120.699889404 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2631578947 20.5533526081 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.644075263715 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.5376344086 132% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.54480286738 36% => OK
Readability: 43.1798245614 45.7405998639 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.42253521127 1.45489161554 98% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.391215279998 0.300154397459 130% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.156029460655 0.103427244359 151% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.100374504579 0.0752933317313 133% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.593724430425 0.497263757937 119% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.188948505057 0.151897553556 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.165870824618 0.114077575197 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0778301535295 0.0781384742642 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.311417445504 0.336927656856 92% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0745589484348 0.067059652881 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246646730794 0.210909579961 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0701736158286 0.0618886996521 113% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8870967742 109% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.86379928315 26% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.91756272401 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 8.42114695341 154% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.4623655914 41% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.75985663082 145% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.6433691756 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Sentence: While I believe it can not be generelized for all purposes of travelling, I tend to agree that travelling in a group is more useful for the following concerns.
Error: generelized Suggestion: generalized

Sentence: Also, the tour guide makes it easier to find the best resturants in that place as well as the best things to do during free time.
Error: resturants Suggestion: restaurants

Sentence: To summerize, I think it is more fun to be in a group than travelling alone.
Error: summerize Suggestion: summarize

flaws:
No. of Words: 480 while No. of Different Words: 197

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 480 350
No. of Characters: 2082 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.681 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.338 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.452 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 81 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.171 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.344 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.573 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5