TPO-41 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Teachers were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they are nowadays.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Many people believe that teachers were more appreciated and valued by the society in the past than they were nowadays. I believe, however, that people today respect teachers more than ever.

First, an increasing number of parents realize the importance of education as well as the crucial role that teachers play in shaping their children's future. Therefore, most parents show their great respect to teachers. For example, they will send gifts like flowers and chocolates to teachers, especially on Teachers' Day every year. However, in the past, people regarded teacher as the lowest job and no one cared about teachers. It is clearly that teachers receive more respect from parents nowadays.

In the second place, government pay more attention on education, leading to more support to teachers. In class, there is always a teaching assistant sticking around to help teachers with their instructional activities. After class, many school provides services like child day care to ensure that personal issues won't concern teachers too much so that they can fully dedicate themselves into their jobs. On the other hand, students always outnumbered teachers, which means the workload on one teacher's shoulder is a lot heavier than that of today's teacher. Not to mention there were not teacher-friendly services available in schools.

Admittedly, teachers' salary is lower than many other professional jobs like lawyers or doctors. However, this situation is now undergoing positive changes. The government allocates more funds to schools to pay the salary. Now the salary of teachers is higher that than the average salary. Moreover, teachers enjoy two long paid-vocations and a lot annual bonus. In the past, teachers received the lowest salary with no additional privileges.

According to what we have discussed above, I have strong reason to believe that teachers are more appreciated and valued by society nowadays than they were in the past.

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Average: 7.9 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 233, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun school seems to be countable; consider using: 'many schools'.
Suggestion: many schools
... instructional activities. After class, many school provides services like child day care t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, well, for example, as well as, in the second place, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1647.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 307.0 407.700716846 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36482084691 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6842406869 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 212.727598566 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5667752443 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 618.680645161 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.9542661079 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.6842105263 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1578947368 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42105263158 5.45110844103 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252999073521 0.236089414692 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0846843384305 0.076458572812 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085118702596 0.0737576698707 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176631776769 0.150856017488 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0859530971574 0.0645574589148 133% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 10.9000537634 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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many school provides services
many schools provide services

there were not teacher-friendly services available
there were no teacher-friendly services available
they were not teacher-friendly services

flaws:
No. of Words: 308 350 //more content wanted. The more words, the better marks for TOEFL independent essays. It is is ideal to have around 400 words.

To make more content, the examples can be relatively longer.

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 23 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 308 350
No. of Characters: 1599 1500
No. of Different Words: 172 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.189 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.192 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.607 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.211 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.693 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.551 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5