Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The reading that students do on their own is as important as (or even more important than) the reading assigned by their teachers.
What is supposed to foster one's overall qualities? One answer lies in reading ability and skills. Since education is still a hotly-discussed topic among the public, some people advocate that the books recommended by teachers are of significant importance, while others hold a different viewpoint that we should empower children to read the books they like. As far as I am concerned, these two types of books are important equally, and we should attach the same importance to both of them.
On the one hand, if the children are enabled to read the books they choose, they are granted the chance to assimilate the knowledge more efficiently. As a renowned saying goes, interest is the best teacher. If children possess the right to read the book on their own, they can be encouraged by their interest to do some in-depth research in their favorite field and be motivated to spend more time honing their reading skills. Besides, in this way, parents and teachers can sidestep some common pitfalls of doctrinarism and spoon-feeding education. For example, when I was in primary school, with the popularity of the Harry Potter series, I started reading them in my spare time. I was obsessed with the fantastic plots and impressive episodes. I was totally indulged in the wonderland created by J.K. Rowling. Besides, since the translation versions were not available when the new book was released, I started learning English by myself and read the original English version. Owing to my persistence and passion, my English improved significantly, and reading English was no longer an enormously demanding task for me. Finally, I even gained higher grades and performed better in my final exam than before.
On the other hand, teachers have more teaching experience. They are capable of selecting books that deliver more benefits to students’ development and some teachers can educate students according to their diversified aptitudes. As we all know, most teachers are experts in education, and they have taken some professional courses related to children's mental development and cognitive ability. They have a more comprehensive understanding of reading and can guarantee the quality of the books that they choose. Sometimes they can readily find the crux of the problem that the students face when reading a book and give some tailor-made plans to improve their competence. Just take my friend, Lucy, as a prime example. When Lucy entered primary school, she was not good at reading, and always got relatively low grades in the main subject, Chinese. At first, Lucy was worried about her grades. Our Chinese teacher provided some help to her. She enthusiastically listed some books that are suitable for us to read and gave Lucy some special tips to help her read. Lucy gained large progress with our teacher's instructions and has been passionate about literature since that time.
In a nutshell, the books chosen by the children themselves are as momentous as the ones assigned by teachers. Since every single day on campus ought to be made full use of, both types of books should be treasured by children, and these books definitely will constitute a steppingstone for their development.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, if, so, still, thus, while, as to, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2675.0 1977.66487455 135% => OK
No of words: 523.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11472275335 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80589200013 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 212.727598566 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537284894837 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 835.2 618.680645161 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 12.0 3.51792114695 341% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.6699345463 48.9658058833 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.0740740741 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3703703704 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 5.45110844103 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 11.8709677419 177% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249060785094 0.236089414692 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599000021731 0.076458572812 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0594873168785 0.0737576698707 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134027124633 0.150856017488 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0666632304839 0.0645574589148 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 86.8835125448 169% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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