TPO 38
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Leadership comes naturally: one cannot learn to be a leader.
To be a leader, one must know how to organize activities, have strong responsibilities, and know how to communicate with others. Although some people tend to think that leadership comes naturally, by deeply deliberating over this issue, I believe that this statement is false. The following discussion reveals my stand and reasoning.
First of all, people can learn how to communicate with others through participating in many activities and making friends with lots of people. My own experience is a compelling example of this. Before entering college, although I am a good listener, I was too shy to express myself, misunderstanding always happened between me and my classmates. After I entered college, outstanding people there were not afraid of asking me what I am talking about while they cannot understand me, which gave me a chance to explain myself and to made my point clearer. By doing so, I found out that people did not bother if I say long sentences to express my ideas, and become less afraid to make a full expression. As a result, frequently exchanging ideas with friends made me realize how to have effective communication.
Secondly, people can learn to take responsibilities through experiences. For instance, my brother is pretty lazy and tends to avoid work that needs efforts. The first semester of his undergraduate career, he found out that he had to do many group projects, which needs lots of discussions and work. He tried not to take the responsibility of doing his part of the job, till the finals he found out that his teammates abandoned him and told the professor he did not do a thing. He failed three courses and many people do not like him. Since then, he learned to take responsibilities and do things that he once thought of as troubles, in order not to become the rotten apple that spoiled the barrel.
By contrast, there is a popular opinion that charisma of leaders cannot be taught. Nevertheless, this belief fails to consider the fact that charisma is only an additional characteristic of leaders. If a leader does not have a clear thought on what goals to achieve and how to achieve that goal, that is, the ability of organizing activities, even if people listen to him due to his charisma, purposeless works will lead the team to nowhere. Eventually, the workers will leave this leader and find a one with practical and exciting goals. As a result, it is hard to convince people of this point.
To sum up, with the reasons mentioned above, I am convinced that the characteristics of being a leader can be obtained by learning, and thus one can learn to be a leader.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, as to, for instance, talking about, as a result, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 43.0788530466 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2175.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 450.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83333333333 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96189879038 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537777777778 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.640041417 48.9658058833 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.571428571 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57142857143 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198720322827 0.236089414692 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0560114138534 0.076458572812 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567489915588 0.0737576698707 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1246507603 0.150856017488 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.063129656615 0.0645574589148 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 86.8835125448 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.