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 play an important role in every society. Economic development of a country depends on the performance of teachers and how they educate the future workforce. Although some people maintain that teachers are still valued and appreciated by society, there are others who believe that teachers’ prestige has been declined in recent years. From my point of view, people do not appreciate teachers as they had in the past because not only does the level of literacy in societies have improved, but also the number of teachers has rapidly increased in the past decades which caused a change in government policies.

First of all, countries have invested heavily in enhancing the percentage of literate people for decades to improve their workforce quality. This investment has caused rapid growth in the number of people who have graduated from schools. In the past, families were mostly illiterate and as teachers were sometimes one of the few literate peoples in a community, they were highly appreciated by others. However, these days most of the families are not only literate but also have university certificates. This has caused a change in the game and people do not look up to teachers anymore.

The other reason which could be mentioned here is the importance of school level education for governments. Plans to enhance workforce literacy have succeeded in recent decades, thus most countries are currently focusing on universities rather than schools. This change in goals also caused a relative decrease in school budgets. While university professors are being paid much more due to the importance of university education, teachers salary may seem somehow less.

To summarize, we have to accept that teachers are not being appreciated in societies as they used to. Change in countries’ priorities and also increase in the number of educated people in a society are two reasons for this decline in teachers’ appreciation. However, a new trend is being formed in some developed countries which focus more on teachers to renovate the education system based on high technologies. This trend might bring some hopes to enhance teacher prestige in societies once more in the upcoming decades.

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Average: 7.5 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, still, thus, while, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 43.0788530466 37% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 355.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2676056338 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84556403471 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 212.727598566 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521126760563 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 605.7 618.680645161 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.9699563717 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.0 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8823529412 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58823529412 5.45110844103 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172684912632 0.236089414692 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.060145170045 0.076458572812 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0539198099651 0.0737576698707 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112208793262 0.150856017488 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465315567761 0.0645574589148 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 11.7677419355 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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