Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Submitted by Swaggy on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 05:41

Regarding whether students are more affected by their teachers than by their friends, different people hold divergent opinions. Some would maintain the standpoint that they really are because they are taught by their teachers about knowledge in school. I partly agree with their notion. However, from my opinion, I contend that students are more influenced by their friends than by their teachers.

First, the time students spending with their friends is far more than the time they spending with their teachers, because even if the time in school has taken up a period of whole time of students per day, the time students spending with their friends after school and in class breaks is far more than the exposing time between students and teachers. As a saying goes, the more time you stay with another guy, the more he/she would affect you. Thus many students have developed bad habits because they are influenced by their friends who have the similar bad behavior. According to a survey conducted by Wuhan University in 2018 about this issue, about 2/3 students tend to be affected more by their friends than by their teachers. Furthermore, almost all the students say they spend much more time with their friends than with their teachers.

Second, under no circumstance would teachers teach negative or even wrong knowledge to students, because the fixed print of textbooks and the basic requirement for teachers. However, for students' friends, they are likely also students who have not completely developed the right moral value. Thus it is entirely possible for their friends to form some bad habits and infect these habits to students. Consider my own experience which can shed some light on this issue. When I was in middle school, I got touched with a friend called Li, he was not a good student and he always skipped classes to play video games outside campus. Although my teacher had told me thousands of times the importance to having classes, I can't help being affected by him and following him. Finally, it is the totally break up between us made me back to the normal school life.

Admittedly, it is undeniable that sometimes students are more influenced by their teachers because of the relationship between teachers and students, this circumstance could only occur on the good students who will never influenced by anyone else. On the contrary, many common students are more affected by their friends because of the special time and place in school.

To sum up, whereas there is an argument that students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends, namely the relationship that students being taught by teachers, longer time of staying between students and their friends, coupled with immature mind and values of students and their friends, makes a strong case for the argument that students are more influenced by their friends than by their teachers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 445, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... guy, the more he/she would affect you. Thus many students have developed bad habits...
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Line 9, column 293, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...letely developed the right moral value. Thus it is entirely possible for their frien...
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Line 9, column 716, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...mes the importance to having classes, I cant help being affected by him and followin...
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Line 9, column 726, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to be' or 'be'.
Suggestion: to be; be
...portance to having classes, I cant help being affected by him and following him. Fina...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, really, regarding, second, so, thus, whereas, on the contrary, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 43.0788530466 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2427.0 1977.66487455 123% => OK
No of words: 481.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04573804574 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45287886526 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451143451143 0.524837075471 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 696.6 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.4684754134 48.9658058833 187% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.736842105 100.406767564 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3157894737 20.6045352989 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.31578947368 5.45110844103 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => 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: 0.382764859601 0.236089414692 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14483796402 0.076458572812 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105438881438 0.0737576698707 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.274102582754 0.150856017488 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10263100121 0.0645574589148 159% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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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