There is no shortage of opinion over the topic that whether it is more important to keep old friends or to acquaint new friends. Some believe that old friends are those who will pick you up when you get down, while others argue that new friends are going to bring your life inspiration and unknown opportunities. In my opinion, keeping in touch with old friends matter more. I feel this way based on two reasons, which I will explore in the following passages.
To begin with, building a strong connection with friends is never easy and it always takes mutual efforts for the relationship to work. Moreover, the constant devotion of both sides can make the bonds even tighter and long-lasting. Drawing from my own experience, I still keep in touch with my best friend from elementary school by sending messages and postcards from time to time though we haven't seen each other in eleven years. It seems like something with little effort, but I overcame my fear for embarrassment to maintain our friendship. Having a friend for more than ten years is definitely a heartwarming monument for knowing that we are on each other's mind. Most importantly, I feel mentally recharged whenever I think of our friendship while I sometimes feel drained by meeting new people intentionally. Therefore, every friendship built sincerely should be well maintained.
Secondly, I get more exhausted at making new friends as I grow older. People getting involved in more formal environments such as an office or a research laboratory have a common goal to achieve, and we spend time together on the purpose to reach that goal. During the process of fulfilling an achievement, I have the tendency to be more serious and discreet. For instance, when I was working a part-time job last year, I was not able to open up and share much of my personal life with my colleagues since we are acquaintances of a professional network. Therefore, it is not easy to be friends with colleagues even we spend abundant time together. Meeting new friends in spite of people from work needs extra effort, which is quite precious for a person who work eight hours per day.
To sum up, given the reasons mentioned above, I strongly believe that the importance of keeping old friends outweighs that of making new friends. That is not to say other opinions are completely out of merits. However, I consider my statements provided substantiated to support my point of view.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 392, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, well, while, for instance, i feel, i think, such as, in my opinion, in spite of, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2022.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 416.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86057692308 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79259888686 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574519230769 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 618.680645161 99% => 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: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4443321965 48.9658058833 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.1 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.65 5.45110844103 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.293146343639 0.236089414692 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875183670257 0.076458572812 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0818987485888 0.0737576698707 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192806423645 0.150856017488 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0846883293358 0.0645574589148 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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