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.

Teachers are considered one of the major segments of the society with a significant role in the society’s prosperity. However, the extent to which teachers can affect the society and thus be valued by the members of the society is still a challenging issue.

Many sociologists subscribe to the view that today, teachers have the same prestige as they had in the past. They contend that teachers are considered as one of the most impressive groups in a society, who have various educational, breeding, and religious roles. These sociologists cite a survey, conducted at the University of Tehran in 2009, to support their opinion. In this survey, people were asked to rank different occupations based on their social prestige. More than 70 percent of the respondents, ranked teachers as having the highest social impact and respect.

On the other hand, the first and foremost reason why teachers were more appreciated in the past is that they were the only source of the information and knowledge. In fact, in the past, teachers had a pivotal role in people’s education since there was not any other source available for people. The knowledge was orally conveyed through subsequent generations and people could hardly find written materials. Not only have the technological advances such as the invention of computers and the wide accessibility of the internet provided us with a lot of information, but also they can be used conveniently by the majority of people.

Furthermore, in the past, a person who intended to be a teacher was encountered a lot of difficulties to reach his goal. For example, in the past, most of the cities lacked schools and a student had to go to other places where they had an opportunity to learn. Thus, only a small proportion of people tended to be teachers. As a result, the public praised those who chose to teach despite all the obstacles they faced to be a successful teacher, and teaching was considered a kind of gift that only some people were able to achieve.

To put the issue into perspective, I hold the view that in the past, teachers were being respected more in comparison to today’s teachers since they were the only means for education, and had to overcome a lot of difficulties in the path to reach their goals.

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Average: 7.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, still, thus, for example, in fact, kind of, such as, as a result, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 43.0788530466 49% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1902.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 386.0 407.700716846 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9274611399 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90279396173 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515544041451 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 594.0 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3883357038 48.9658058833 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.875 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.125 20.6045352989 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.1875 5.45110844103 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20493416152 0.236089414692 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691611722218 0.076458572812 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520025109311 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120887195447 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263391166309 0.0645574589148 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 86.8835125448 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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