Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to use printed material such as books and articles to do research than it is to use the internet. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Submitted by Maylin on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 09:39

Nowadays people are able to find the needed material in different ways. Some people think that it is better to work with books, while others think the opposite. In my opinion, I contend that both of them have pros and cons. However, I am off the conviction that it is better to use the Internet. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I would explore in the following essay.
To begin with, we need to take into consideration that using fewer books would save the green planet. It is not a secret that in the current days our air is more polluted than ever before because human beings are cutting down trees in order to produce paper and other facilities. However, if people use the Internet instead of books for the access to information then more trees would be saved. My personal experience is a compelling example of that. Two years ago, our teacher of biology told our class to prepare the project. To be more specific, me and my classmates together needed to prepare the plan on how to save our world from pollution. We had only a week, therefore we decided to stop buying any books or articles and instead of that, we tried to use the Internet. Initially, it seemed hard but then everybody just gets used to that and it was easier than expected. At the end of the week, we realized that we saved approximately five trees and our professor was amazed that we received our excellent marks. As you can see, just using the Internet helps our nature to stay fresh.
Apart from that, we cannot ignore the fact that the Internet saves our money and time. In contrast, books may cost expensive and plus it takes a while before you can find the needed book. In addition, one should note here that not all people can afford it, especially if you are a student. An apt illustration for that is my older sister’s experience. When she was a student, she needed to use her money wisely because she studied abroad, where everything does not cost cheap. After the first semester, she realized that most of her budget was spent on books, which professors told her to buy as mandatory. Moreover, it was hard to find these articles because other students also were searching for that. However, she decided to talk to her teachers and explain her situation that it would more advantageous for her if she would practicing by the Internet. Fortunately, her professors allowed her to do so and, as a result, she was able to save not only her income but also her time. She believes that she would not have conserved her time and income by educating with books. Accordingly, it demonstrates that the Internet is more beneficial.
To sum up, I firmly believe that using the Internet is more advantageous than printed materials. This is because the access to the Internet preserves not only trees but also your budget and time.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 834, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'practice'
Suggestion: practice
... more advantageous for her if she would practicing by the Internet. Fortunately, her profe...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, while, apart from, i feel, in addition, in contrast, as a result, in my opinion, to begin with, 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: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.0286738351 218% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 84.0 43.0788530466 195% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2319.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 504.0 407.700716846 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.60119047619 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48979319168 2.67179642975 93% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492063492063 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 735.3 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 23.0 9.59856630824 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.7991593911 48.9658058833 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.8214285714 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.60714285714 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189397810622 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0555537172292 0.076458572812 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576742730341 0.0737576698707 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130135164119 0.150856017488 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384810319285 0.0645574589148 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 11.7677419355 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.1 10.9000537634 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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