Agree or disagree: It is better to make friends with intelligent people than with the people who have a good sense of humor.
Helene Keller once said, “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Undoubtedly, friendship has become a pivotal component of modern society. One cannot really survive without the support and aid of friends. Not only are friends important but also what kinds of friends people make can make a huge difference. Some prefer to make friends that are humorous whereas some tend to mingle with friends with intelligence. It is of my belief that making friends with intelligence can bring forth a host of benefits.
To begin with, intelligent friends can provide us with some insightful and to-the-point suggestions. That is, when we are faced with dilemmas, friends with intelligence can analytically appraise pros and cons and give us the most favorable opinions without being biased. For example,before deciding what major to pursue, I could not make my my mind since on one hand, I loved English literature and linguistics because I always demonstrated some kind of knack for learning foreign languages. However, my family would want me to major in some disciplines that are more “lucrative,” meaning that fields of study, such as biology or computer engineer, that could help me gain practical skills and thereby secure jobs that pay well. My family made the claim that studying English literature and linguistics would only enrich my critical thinking and reasoning, some skills that could not be directly translated into practical skills that can be applied at workforce. Such dilemma bogged me down, and I resorted to my good friend Johnny from high school, who was extremely knowledgeable. After appraising my interests and weighing potential career options, he asserted that I should definitely follow my heart and become an English major. He reasoned that soft skills, such as critical thinking or humanistic train of thought would be something that will be highly valued in the future, especially in this era of high-tech. People with such soft skills would be extremely valuable in any kinds of posts. His words convinced me to become an English major. Now, working as a vice-president of a business company, in retrospect, I am grateful that I listened to my friend’s words back then since indeed, as what he had foreseen, soft skills, such as critical thinking or people relationship, are not something that can be learnt from textbooks or at laboratories or on the Internet. The trainings as an English major, however, did indeed equip me to acquire those skills and helped me with my career as the vice president of the company, whose job demanded such soft skills.
Furthermore, we can gain and grow enormously, intellectually, by making friends with intelligent people. That is, if we spend more time interacting with intelligent people, not only could we get to hear what they have to offer on given topics but also we could exchange different ideas, thus stimulating us to grow and improve. This kind of mental exercise would definitely be beneficial and rewarding. To exemplify this, I once had a flaring debate with another friend of mine, Alex, regarding how to interpret certain texts of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Alex considered animals’ treachery in the story was merely an act to overthrow human’s authoritative control whereas I argued that the protagonists in the story, the Pig Snowball and the Pig Napoleon, could represent real historical figures. After the debate, we decided to jot down each other’s arguments and went over one point by point. After we exchanged our own ideas, I found his textual analysis pretty intriguing and I had not been able to see the story in this regard before if I hadn’t listen to what he had to offer. The same occurred to him. We ended up learning so much from each other and were more capable of interpreting stories from divergent angles.
Irrefutably, some dissidents might disavow my argument by claiming that having humorous friends is better since they can help us relieve stress and pressure from work and schoolwork. After all, our life has been mainly composed of an accumulating amount of defeating pressure springing from our professions. Humorous friends can tell jokes and make fool of themselves to make us laugh, to let us forget all the pressure, and to make us look on the bright side of matters. The importance of being positive and optimistic cannot be over-emphasized. However, have these people forgotten that humorous friends might not be able to give us the wisest suggestions in life to assist us in overcoming life obstacles or making critical decisions? Have these people not realized that humorous friends can merely make us laugh and that’s all? Granted, they are important, but having humorous friends is not as important as having intelligent friends who can enrich our lives on so many different levels, mentally, psychologically, and socially. Intelligent friends are like a beacon, guiding us when we drift, shining for us when we are in the dark, and most importantly, standing there for us when we are lost.
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...inions without being biased. For example,before deciding what major to pursue, I could ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, look, really, regarding, so, then, thus, well, whereas, after all, for example, kind of, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 15.1003584229 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 9.8082437276 285% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 36.0 13.8261648746 260% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 28.0 11.0286738351 254% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 99.0 43.0788530466 230% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 109.0 52.1666666667 209% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4266.0 1977.66487455 216% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 836.0 407.700716846 205% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1028708134 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.37714279052 4.48103885553 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94394394205 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 410.0 212.727598566 193% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49043062201 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1316.7 618.680645161 213% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 20.0 9.59856630824 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.6003584229 165% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.4627533123 48.9658058833 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.470588235 100.406767564 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5882352941 20.6045352989 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35294117647 5.45110844103 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 28.0 11.8709677419 236% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281563803225 0.236089414692 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0805705933286 0.076458572812 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0862667983343 0.0737576698707 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196606945137 0.150856017488 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0981930531362 0.0645574589148 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 58.1214874552 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 206.0 86.8835125448 237% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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