Many people might agree that it is more important to keep old friends than to make new friends. They cite loyalty and the level of bonding between them. However, I believe that it is great to make new friends at different stages of our life. I feel this for two reasons which I will explain in the following essay.
First of all, I feel that making new friends is important because we get to learn many things from each of our friends. For example, in my graduate school, I made a friend who was extremely meticulous about cleanliness and hygiene. He taught me how not to make a mess and keep my room neat and tidy. Consequently, it helped me in the long run as now I am able to find things pretty quickly and things do not get lost as everything is so well organized. Therefore, there are many such qualities that we can learn from others since every person is different and this uniqueness helps both of them to grow substantially. Had I not met him, I would be the same untidy person till now.
Second of all, I believe that making new friends is so much fun. For instance, I had a friend during my high school who was an avid follower of baseball. On the other hand, I was never fond of that game, but watching him being so enthusiastic about the national league coming up I decided to watch the matches with him. Honestly, at first I thought that it would not be that great but as time passed by, it grew on me. I started to like baseball and I am thankful for him who opened up my eyes. Now, whenever any news of baseball circulates, we talk about it passionately. Everyone has different views and opinions and having a friend of different tastes helped me to acknowledge the other sides of the things.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that making new friends is also important but this does not mean that we should let go of our old friends. We are always going to meet different peoples from different walks of our life, so it common to make new friends. Moreover, it is advantageous to make befriend a new person as it helps us to learn about new things and it gives us the opportunity to see things differently.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Movies and television strongly influence the way people behave? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. 60
- TOEFL integrated writing: Endotherms 3
- It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends. 70
- TOEFL integrated writing: Endotherms 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A person should never make an important decision alone. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, honestly, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, first of all, 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: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 43.0788530466 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1736.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 398.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.36180904523 4.8611393121 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51339182304 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515075376884 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 618.680645161 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => 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: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.7699594632 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.8 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.05 5.45110844103 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317371309503 0.236089414692 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1015573717 0.076458572812 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155874765316 0.0737576698707 211% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228540684387 0.150856017488 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.130730822348 0.0645574589148 203% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 11.7677419355 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 77.57 58.1214874552 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.01 10.9000537634 73% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.72 8.01818996416 84% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 86.8835125448 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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