Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to use printed material such as books and articles to do research than it is to use the internet. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Most of us has done researches at least once. To gather information required, there are many forms of resources available. In my view, printed materials are better than internet resources. In the essay I will explain reasons to my opinion.
To begin with, printed materials such as books, articles are more reliable than internet based once. Books and articles are mostly written by reputed authors in respective fields. On the other hand, most of the documents found in websites are written by random persons and most of them biased. For instance when I’m studying for my first degree in history at University of Colombo Sri Lanka, I was assigned to do a research about World War 2. I used internet to gather information. But professor pointed out me that some information in my article are not correct and I got low marks to that assignment. This helped me to realize that printed materials are more reliable.
Secondly, books and printed articles contain are more descriptive. In a book we can see get summary of all relevant details under main topics. If one expect more information he/she can refer subtopics which provides more elaborate details, which helps to more enthusiastic student to grasp knowledge. At the high school, my history teacher always advise us to use recommended books to understand lessons taught in the class room. He told us that, those books are more informative and will help to get a broad understand of the subject.
Last but not least, to refer internet based materials you need other tools and services, such as a computer, mobile phone and electricity. But to refer a book, book is enough. Also you can lend your book to anyone without any copyright issues. But sometimes internet based materials have legal limitations, when we are going to share those with some third party. For instance, I am living in a third world country, where computers and internet are considered as luxuries that every one cannot afford as a result, to do research printed materials are better as they are readily available in any country.
In conclusion, even though internet based materials are popular, they are not good resources to do research. Because printed materials are more reliable and more informative than printed materials. Also in a developing county everyone does not has access to internet. That is why I support the use of printed materials like books and articles.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 418, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...Colombo Sri Lanka, I was assigned to do a research about World War 2. I used internet to g...
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Line 4, column 177, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...y. But to refer a book, book is enough. Also you can lend your book to anyone withou...
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Line 5, column 244, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'have'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: have
...n a developing county everyone does not has access to internet. That is why I suppo...
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Line 5, column 244, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'have'
Suggestion: have
...n a developing county everyone does not has access to internet. That is why I suppo...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, secondly, so, third, thus, at least, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in my view, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2006.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 403.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9776674938 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67610704736 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54094292804 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 643.5 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.4490539832 48.9658058833 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.24 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.12 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.48 5.45110844103 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.88709677419 266% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.313424262084 0.236089414692 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0879058824054 0.076458572812 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0728833518831 0.0737576698707 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17855320513 0.150856017488 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688888350186 0.0645574589148 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 86.8835125448 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.002688172 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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