Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When doing research, it is better to use printed materials such as books and articles than it is to use the Internet. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It is critically important that students use the best available resource when they do their projects. Personally, I believe that printed materials are better than online articles for two reasons that will be explored in the following essay.
Firstly, printed materials like textbooks and academic journals are more reliable than online websites. This is because articles online can be edited by anyone regardless of whether they are qualified or not. As a result, many articles on various online encyclopedias contain wrong information. My personal experience demonstrates the danger of relying on such websites. Two semesters ago, I was assigned a paper in a freshman biology class. Thus, I cited the first online article I found on Wikipedia. However, the information included in my article turned out to be completely wrong and my professor spotted it immediately. Accordingly, I failed the assignment and got a fairly low grade. If I spent more time comparing the information in my paper with a reliable source like a textbook or an academic journal, I would have realized how incorrect and biased this online article was, and I wouldn’t have gotten such a terrible grade.
In addition, printed materials provide the required information in a more detailed and organized way. In other words, Textbooks have a reference index that could assist the researcher with collecting precise and detailed information for a specific topic. My own experience is a compelling example of this concept. Last year I was assigned an essay in a history class. Fortunately, the first textbook I consulted contained a long description of both the background and the long-termed effect of a historical event I was writing about. On the other hand, articles about the same topic contained just a little bit more than superficial facts and dates. For this reason, I believe that online articles are general knowledge without getting into depth. That’s why students can’t depend heavily on them when preparing their academic projects that require detailed information.
In conclusion, printed materials are a better source than online articles for academic projects. This is because they are less biased and don’t contain many errors as online articles. Also, printed materials approach the academic topics in-depth and with profound detailed facts and dates.
- At the end of the Triassic period 200 million years ago there was a mass extinction event that caused the extinction of more than half of all living species It was this extinction event that allowed dinosaurs to become the dominant species for the next 14 90
- Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air millions of birds are harmed every year when they try to fly through glass windows T 81
- Workers are more satisfied when they have many different types of tasks to do during the workday than when they do similar tasks all day long Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 70
- A huge marine mammal known as Steller s sea cow once lived in the waters around Bering Island off the coast of Siberia It was described in 1741 by Georg W Steller a naturalist who was among the first Europeans to see one In 1768 the animal became extinct 85
- Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air millions of birds are harmed every year when they try to fly through glass windows T 81
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 601, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...s about the same topic contained just a little bit more than superficial facts and dates. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, first, firstly, however, if, so, thus, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 52.1666666667 61% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1982.0 1977.66487455 100% => OK
No of words: 371.0 407.700716846 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3423180593 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87231894851 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.530997304582 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0688387061 48.9658058833 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.0909090909 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8636363636 20.6045352989 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.45110844103 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18450244834 0.236089414692 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0516678913274 0.076458572812 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526668127206 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139819520346 0.150856017488 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0803741212525 0.0645574589148 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 58.1214874552 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 10.9000537634 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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