There are many ways that we can obtain knowledge, such as the use of learning apps in our smartphones, studying using an online course or gaining knowledge from experience. Some people argue that watching a film is an educational way to learn and more valuable than reading a book. Personally, I believe that reading is the best method to improve our skills. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
Reading gives people a chance to learn how the words are spelled. Although they may have heard a word in the past, it is possible that they might not recognize the spelling when encountered it in a text. For example, about a month ago, I was reading a book called The Big Short, about the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States. During my reading, I faced a myriad of "new" words. Later, I searched for those words in the dictionary and I found that I had heard them before; however, I did not know how to write them. In contrast, when I watched the movie about the book, I did not learn any new vocabulary, because I was just passively watching the film.
Secondly, reading is more mentally active than watching shows on a screen. That is to say, when watching something, it is not necessary to imagine how the scene looks. The mind can wander while watching a movie, and still have a general picture of what is happening. For instance, when I was watching the Big Short movie, I did not have to imagine the environment, nor how the actors look. It was all there for me through the stunning film on the screen. Meanwhile, reading the book required my full attention. I had to imagine the scene, so I literally had to put my brain to work. My mind could not wander when I was reading the book, like it did when watching the film. Moreover, I really needed to concentrate on the words and figure out how they sounded in other to comprehensively understand the story.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that reading it is much more educational than just watching a show on your magic screen at home. This is because reading can teach how to spell the words and is an active way to learn something new, requiring full attention.
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- Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
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- Children over the age of 15 should be allowed to vote. 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, still, while, for example, 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 : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1796.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 397.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.52392947103 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60168468596 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498740554156 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.6305506308 48.9658058833 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5238095238 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9047619048 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61904761905 5.45110844103 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24458207462 0.236089414692 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816860256892 0.076458572812 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110461786409 0.0737576698707 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1708927437 0.150856017488 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0639744402984 0.0645574589148 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.94 10.9000537634 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.23 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 86.8835125448 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => 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: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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