A glance at people's attitude toward sources of news brings to a light question that has been asked several times, namely, whether learning news presented by people whose views are different from us or people who hold similar views. Were I forced to choose, I would prefer the former point of view to the latter one and I will elaborate on my reasons in the following essay.
The first reason worth mentioning is that reading or watching news presented by people whose views are different can be wholesome to personal development. To be more specific, everyone around us grew in a quite different environment, which cultivated them into different personalities. Learning from these differences can not only help us to expand our horizons but also develop the ability to communicate with people from different backgrounds. It can also strengthen the ability of critical thinking, which is significant in studying and working. Upon the arrival of the technological era, the invention and spread of the Internet also enable us to learn from others more conveniently.
The second crucial reason why I hold this opinion is that reading or watching the news from different views can help us correct our mistakes. In fact, everyone does things by following a nearly fixed pattern that is generated from our life habits. There will be much strong resistance if we want to overcome this fixed pattern without recognizing flaws of it. However, by learning different views, we can realize the shortcomings of the way we are thinking and doing and have a clear framework of how to fix them by referring to others' views. Take personal experience as an example, when I was playing the point guard in my school basketball team, I hardly ever control the turnovers I made during the games. Even I practiced my skills day after day, I still could not make big progress. At that time, my coach advised me to watch the famous guard, Stephen Curry, to learn how he watch his teammates' positions and do the right passes. After watching his videos for uncountable times and mimicking his way of playing for several months, I gradually changed my habits of doing risky passing decisions and learned to be calm at games. Had it not been learning from others' views, I could not be the starter guard in my school basketball team.
A voice arises that we can also learn from those similar views because it can help us strengthen the understanding of a certain area. This claim should be scrutinized meticulously. Learning from similar views has an obvious flaw, which will gradually fix our thinking model and make us hard to accept suggestions from others. As an old Chinese saying goes, there must have a teacher among people you are walking along with. Therefore, learning from different seems a better way to improve ourselves.
In conclusion, drawing reasons I have mentioned above, I strongly agree to read or watch news presented by people who have different views. While there are one thousand of Hamlets in one thousand of people’s eyes, I firmly believe my opponent will yield after being shown to my article.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, still, then, therefore, while, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 43.0788530466 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 52.1666666667 140% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2575.0 1977.66487455 130% => OK
No of words: 525.0 407.700716846 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90476190476 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78673985869 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66516964783 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 271.0 212.727598566 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51619047619 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 783.9 618.680645161 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.1287153996 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.956521739 100.406767564 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8260869565 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.17391304348 5.45110844103 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282850230322 0.236089414692 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0815725603767 0.076458572812 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0852867159214 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183425616563 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662071105549 0.0645574589148 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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