Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Submitted by tuanhk52 on Fri, 12/02/2016 - 12:44

There have endless discussions over importance between old and new friends. Some people argue that keeping old friends is more important rather than making the new ones. Personally, I disapprove of this argument, since two subjects are of equal importance.

At the first analysis, mutual understanding and personal enjoyment are what cannot be left out when mentioning old friends. It cannot be denied that friends whom we know for a long time are persons know us the best and vice versa. They not only remember our hobbies or characteristic but also understand our strengths and weaknesses. More interestingly, keeping in touch with old friends brings us happiness. Due to long-time relationship, we are likely to easily share our motion and problems with old friends which cannot happen in new relationship. Moreover, our friends are able to offer us very valuable advices to handle these problems. That helps us to release stress and eliminate anxiety. Indeed, since old friends are true friends who not only understand us but also are a source of great enjoyment, it makes sense to keep in touch with them.

At the second analysis, involving in new relationship offers chances for us to enhance knowledge and develop communication skill. It is apparent that a new friend whose beliefs may differ from us brings us to new world of knowledge. There are new topics to talk about, new activities to do together, and new personality traits to discover… No sooner do we make new friends than we acquire extensive knowledge. More importantly, meeting new people encourages us to communicate more frequently. Through exchanging, sharing idea with new friends, we have golden chances to practice communication skill. The more people we meet, the better our communication skill is. By and large, making new friends is worthy by dint of its positive influence on improving grasp and lift interpersonal skill.

At the last analysis, each of these shows its merits. Only if a person keeps in touch with old friends and is able to make new friends, it can be competent. Old relationships and new relationships make up for the lack of each other. Combining two factors is perfect choice, which not only offers us happiness, mutual understanding but also fulfill knowledge. Obviously, role of old or new relationship is equally essential factors contributing to a person s’ success. Beyond any doubts, there is no reason to suppose that one of them should be highly appreciated than other.

In conclusion, for all the mentioned above, cherishing old relationship and making the new one ranks at equal places. It is highly recommended that people should take my essay into detailed consideration to have appropriated decision on old friends and new friends.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, second, so, in conclusion, by and large

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 : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2316.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 450.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14666666667 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95480023765 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517777777778 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 702.9 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.3109135344 48.9658058833 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0769230769 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3076923077 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.92307692308 5.45110844103 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 23.0 11.8709677419 194% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308469647824 0.236089414692 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971985488204 0.076458572812 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0743798481391 0.0737576698707 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192477328904 0.150856017488 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384498400733 0.0645574589148 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 11.7677419355 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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