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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Students can learn as much by watching movies as they can learn by reading books.

Without a question, books are a valuable source of information. They may give detailed information on a variety of issues and learn about history, science, and other academic areas. Some may say that pupils may only learn a great deal by reading books, while others argue that movies can be just as informative as books. I tend to agree with the latter.

To begin with, movies can be more fascinating than literature. Reading may be tedious at times, as many individuals find it difficult to sit down and read for a lengthy amount of time. Movies, on the other hand, are far more enticing since they are visual and frequently feature action and suspense, which can keep viewers' attention for the whole duration. As a result, movies can be more remembered than texts, which is beneficial for students, particularly those who need to prepare for exams or assignments. For example, a student is more likely to remember elements from a Civil Rights Movement documentary than from a history textbook on the same topic. He or she may see what the Great March on Washington looked like, hear Martin Luther King's address, and feel the fervor of the time. The documentary brings history to life via the use of pictures and music, an impression that reading texts cannot create.

Films can not only be more appealing and stunning, but they can also cover a lot of material in a short amount of time. A typical feature-length film may convey a tale from several perspectives that would take hundreds of pages to tell in a book, which is very useful for students who are attempting to learn about a certain subject but have limited time. Consider the masterwork 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Scout, a little girl who observes the trial of a black guy accused of raping a white lady, tells the incident in the book. While the book contains a lot of information about the individuals and the community, it is just from Scout's point of view. Viewers are given a considerably larger glimpse of the town and its residents in the film version of the novel. We observe the events of the novel through the eyes of numerous individuals, including Scout's father, Atticus Finch, allowing us to see the events from diverse perspectives and gain a greater understanding of the characters and their motivations. The audience would not have learned as much if the book had not been adapted into a film.

Finally, movies may be a wonderful learning tool for pupils, just like books.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 192, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'saith', 'says'.
Suggestion: saith; says
...nce, and other academic areas. Some may say that pupils may only learn a great deal...
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Line 3, column 576, Rule ID: DT_JJ_NO_NOUN[2]
Message: Probably a noun is missing in this part of the sentence.
...s more likely to remember elements from a Civil Rights Movement documentary than from a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, look, may, so, while, for example, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 43.0788530466 39% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2032.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 425.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78117647059 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67320421241 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 212.727598566 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574117647059 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.2474177778 48.9658058833 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.6 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.25 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 5.45110844103 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => 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: 0.239523629695 0.236089414692 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0699929882186 0.076458572812 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557975876036 0.0737576698707 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147280905444 0.150856017488 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.041952261159 0.0645574589148 65% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 10.9000537634 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => 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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