Some people believe that unpaid community service should be a compulsory part of high school programmes (for example working for a charity, improving the neighborhood or teaching sports to younger children). To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is argued that volunteering should be made part of the school curriculum. This essay agrees with that suggestion completely because of the benefits it brings to pupils. The essay will first look at how voluntary work can help students develop soft skills and then discuss how these extracurricular activities are valued by universities and employers.
Education should not be limited to strictly academic pursuits and those in education should also develop life skills, such as teamwork, empathy and self-discipline, and one of the best ways to hone these aptitudes is through community service. Serving those less fortunate than ourselves teaches us many lessons including how to work with people from other backgrounds and the value of hard work. For example, I personally volunteered to spend 6 weeks in Africa teaching disadvantaged children and this led to a much higher work ethic when I returned to my studies.
Many colleges and companies are also increasingly looking for this type of experience. Most school leavers have the same grades and charitable works can help set you apart from the herd. For example, Cambridge and Oxford receive thousands of applications from straight-A students every year and can only accept a small percentage of applicants. What you have done outside the classroom is often the thing that differentiates you from everyone else and gets you that coveted spot.
In conclusion, teenagers should be made to partake in unpaid work as part of their schooling because it will help them learn things they wouldn’t ordinarily learn from their teachers and it will also boost their chances of getting into third level education.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, look, so, then, third, apart from, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.5418719212 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 6.10837438424 164% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 8.36945812808 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 20.9802955665 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 31.9359605911 103% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.75862068966 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1207.87684729 117% => OK
No of words: 268.0 242.827586207 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27611940299 5.00649968141 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 3.92707691288 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.867925109 2.71678728327 106% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 139.433497537 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.641791044776 0.580463131201 111% => OK
syllable_count: 423.9 379.143842365 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.65517241379 27% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.5024630542 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0224778585 50.4703680194 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.545454545 104.977214359 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3636363636 20.9669160288 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.90909090909 7.25397266985 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208011572326 0.242375264174 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0737174040817 0.0925447433944 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0355157037821 0.071462118173 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111892182347 0.151781067708 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0267123881804 0.0609392437508 44% => 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: 15.6 12.6369458128 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.1260098522 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 11.5310837438 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.32886699507 110% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 55.0591133005 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.94827586207 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.3980295567 112% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.8888888889 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 80.0 Out of 90
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