Nowadays, the ever-accelerating advance of science and technology leaves us narrow chances to escape but to eagerly learn as much and efficiently as possible to prevent from falling behind the society. However, occupied by busier work, we are left with less time to study. On this account, it is increasingly important to learn in the most effective way. Some would assume that we can learn much more from people whose views we share than from those whose views contradict our own, because of the disagreement that can potentially cause stress and inhibit learning. My opinion is, however, quite the opposite: we can learn much more by learning from people holding different views.
First of all, what we have believed in is usually incomplete or inaccurate. Sometimes the truth lies on the opposite side. That is when we have to lower ourselves and learn from others, even if they may laugh at us and bring us great stress. Once I was told that English was very important and I should develop a habit of daily English study. But I did not regard it as important, thought that I would never be going to need English and rarely studied English. The bill comes due, always. English is now what I am suffering from: my weak English ability has impeded me on my way to study abroad. I have already lost a lot of chance to visit other universities overseas due to my poor English, and I have been spending a great amount of time in English in order to pass the language tests so that I can be qualified to apply for the Ph.D. program in December this year. Had I listen to the opinion, life now would have been much easier. Therefore, never think you are always right. Sometimes others' opinion is the truth.
Besides, is taking others' advice so stressful? Being laughed at rarely happens, and usually, it will be just an agreeable talk, where one side expresses the opinion reasonably and the other side feels mind broadened. Even if in the end both sides do not agree with each other, they must be enjoying the process of debating. Through the debate, their mind is activated and they are thus more energetic and can learn more efficiently.
Furthermore, even if it turns out that others' opinion is completely wrong, by debating we can also have a deeper understanding of our own opinion. For example, if we are not clear about some points, the debate happens to provide a great opportunity to find out and make it clear. When debating, reasoning is inevitable, by which we can go through the opinion. Because any point that is not reasonable or not fully developed will be easily amplified by the opponent, we can use this chance to reconsider these issues and develop a deeper understanding. Hence, learning from those holding contrasting views happens to help us understand our own deeply.
In sum, we can learn much more from people whose views contradict our own, because their views may be more accurate than ours, debating with them can activate our mind and provide the chance to fully examine our initial understanding.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 482, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[3]
Message: The adverb 'always' is usually not used at the end of a sentence.
...ly studied English. The bill comes due, always. English is now what I am suffering fro...
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Line 3, column 876, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[4]
Message: Possible agreement error – use past participle here: 'listened'.
Suggestion: listened
...D. program in December this year. Had I listen to the opinion, life now would have bee...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 40, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'others'' or 'other's'?
Suggestion: others'; other's
... Furthermore, even if it turns out that others opinion is completely wrong, by debatin...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, as to, for example, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 33.0505617978 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2510.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 527.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76280834915 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5878401764 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521821631879 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 789.3 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.8257781676 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5384615385 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2692307692 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53846153846 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.443310795339 0.243740707755 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104660483107 0.0831039109588 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.174862914001 0.0758088955206 231% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.282106803297 0.150359130593 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.213758861449 0.0667264976115 320% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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