Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important to read or watch the news presented by people whose views are similar to your own than by people whose views are different from yours.

Thanks to the development of communication technologies, nowadays people can gain massive amounts of information in a short period. A variety of different new sources have created on TV, the Internet and social media. Since news plays a crucial part in our daily life, it is important to choose them wisely. In my point of view, it will be better to read news provided by people with different perspective.

First of all, information from a variety of sources reveals the truth more accurately. Since different news resources give a wide range of perspectives, it gives us a whole picture of an event. While gathering information about political or economic news, it is especially important to pay attention to news from different medias. For example, recent research shows that around forty percent of political news are biased because they include too much personal opinions rather than facts. Moreover, the biased news reports are often purposely designed to mislead the general public. Furthermore, the news are created in order to make people vote for specific political parties.

Secondly, gaining information from different sources expands one’s horizon. Since perspective is the way individuals see the world, which is shaped by experiences, value and the assumption they bring into the situation, reading news from perspectives give us meaningful opportunities to reflect the blind spots we have. Take my own experience for example, I was used to reading technology news from one single company. One day, I accidentally saw a sociology magazine which introduces some development of technology in sociology fields. It wasn’t until that day did I realize there can be a strong connection between social science and computer science. This interesting experience reminds me the importance of expanding my horizon by reading various kinds of materials.

Finally, reading news from different sources improve our abilities to organize a wide range of information. Generally, people find it difficult to accept disparate opinions because stepping out of their comfort zone can be painstaking. However, it is significantly important to learn to digest statements from different points of view because it makes us learn how to respect other’s opinions.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that gathering news from different sources is important. This is because it gives us meaningful opportunities to better connecting the world, and it also broadens our horizon. Furthermore, reading different information help us learn to respect to others and can also help us leave our comfort zone.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 567, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...often purposely designed to mislead the general public. Furthermore, the news are created in o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.0752688172 223% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2210.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 405.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45679012346 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02587127402 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 695.7 618.680645161 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.0564185184 48.9658058833 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.454545455 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4090909091 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77272727273 5.45110844103 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224608372955 0.236089414692 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0671407980459 0.076458572812 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0546117584976 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133265507123 0.150856017488 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0473648865536 0.0645574589148 73% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 11.7677419355 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 58.1214874552 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 10.9000537634 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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