Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: it's better to make friends with intelligent people than with people who have a sense of humor?

In contemporary society, where no man is an island, it comes as no surprise that maintaining the bonds with friends have always been amongst individuals’ top priorities. A simple recognition of this argument leads our discussion to the controversial issues of which kind of person we should associate with. Some adhere to the belief that the intelligent people should be given perference. An alternative strategy is to make friends with the humorous ones. I am inclined to concur with the first idea, and in the ensuing paragraph the rationale behind this statement will be elaborated.

The foremost factor tipping the advantage from the latter to the former is the peer pressure, an effective incentive for the juvenile to monotonously expand their scope of knowledge. As is often the case, those who overshadow other companions, especially the youth, will hug themselves and appear an air of contempt for their fellows, consciously or unconsciously. Under such circumstance, a teenager with high self-esteem and emulation conceivably force themselves to exert themselves to catch up. Whenever their ardor gets flagging, recalling the shame of being looked upon definitely lays a stepping stone to elevating their spirt immensely. It goes without saying that the indomitable courage will ultimately yield a result of more competence.

Another significant reason that deserves attention is that we are more than likely to become knowledgable when mingling with the encyclopedic partners on account of the pronounced fact that we can learn from their remarkable tactics of tackling an insuperable connundrums. My own experience is an compelling example of this point. There was a time when I was stuck in the trouble of preparing for my Tofel speaking exam. Due to my weak foundation, I could not speak fluently, coherently and clearly, even though the practice has drain my energy compeletely. Fatigued, pathetic and desperately, I felt the apprehension going through my head and was on the verge of tears. It was at my lowest ebb that I met my friend Tom who had excellent mastery of oral English. Then he imparted the knacks of pronounciation, accent, tone to me. Frankly speaking, I would not have hit the target in the following exam without such enlightment.

With all factors taken into consideration, we can logically reach the conclusion that it is more advisable to cement the friendship with the ingenious mates instead of the witty. After all, the peer pressure and the skill from them is an integral ingredient of the intellectual development.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, frankly, if, look, so, then, after all, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2160.0 1977.66487455 109% => OK
No of words: 412.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2427184466 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10185058438 2.67179642975 116% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 212.727598566 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.638349514563 0.524837075471 122% => OK
syllable_count: 665.1 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => 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: 50.7473151999 48.9658058833 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.7 5.45110844103 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212835392995 0.236089414692 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0549087028322 0.076458572812 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.066816306012 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123465992517 0.150856017488 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0953117787171 0.0645574589148 148% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.01818996416 120% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 86.8835125448 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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