There are many ways that we can gain knowledge, such as the usage of learning apps in our smartphones, studying using an online course or getting knowledge from experience. Some people argue that being seated watching a film or just a television show is an educational way to learn and more valuable than reading a book. Personally, I believe that reading is the best gadget to improve our skills. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
Reading gives you the chance to learn how the words are spelled. When you are reading a book, you might encounter words that you think you may have never seen it before. However, the reality is that you have heard the word, knowing the meaning by its sound and not how it is written. My personal life is a compelling example of this. When I was reading a book called Big Short, about the financial crisis of 2008, I faced a myriad of "new" words. Later on, I searched those words in the dictionary and I found out that I have heard them before; however, I did not know how to write them. In the contrast, when I watched the movie about the book, I felt like that was much harder to learn about how the spelling of the words, because I was just passively watching the film.
Secondly, reading is much more active than watching shows on a screen. That is to say, when you are watching something, most of the times you do not have to imagine how the scene looks like. It feels like that you can think about something else while watching the film. For instance, when I was watching the Big Short movie, I did not have to imagine the environment nor how the actors looked like. It was all there for me though the beautiful film on the screen. In contrast, reading the book required my full attention. I had to imagine the scene, literally I had to put my brain to work. I could not just be reading without paying attention like in the movie. Moreover, I really needed to concentrate in the words and figure out how they sound.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that reading it is much more educational that just watching a show on your magic screen at home. This is because it can teach you how to spell the words and it is an active way to learn something new.
- When schools do not have enough funding or teachers, some people think physical education classes should be cut, while others believe that courses in art and music should be eliminated first. Which do you think is preferable, and why? 70
- Some people think that men and women have different qualities that some certain jobs suitable for men and some jobs are suitable for women. Do you agree or disagree? 70
- Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- Some parents forbid young children from owning smartphones (cell phones with Internet access), while others disagree and believe that they are important tools for keeping in touch. Which point of view do you think is better, and why? 60
- Reading is more educational than watching television or movies. 66
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 43.0788530466 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1839.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 418.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.3995215311 4.8611393121 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40264886103 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 212.727598566 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483253588517 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 561.6 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2125067841 48.9658058833 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.5909090909 100.406767564 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224163343817 0.236089414692 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0718209696398 0.076458572812 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105987927382 0.0737576698707 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156174028624 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.051366064196 0.0645574589148 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.8 11.7677419355 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 77.57 58.1214874552 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.24 10.9000537634 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.96 8.01818996416 87% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 86.8835125448 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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