There are many ways that we can obtain knowledge from, such as the usage of learning apps in our smartphones, studying using an online course or getting knowledge from experience. Some people argue that watching a film is an educational way to learn and more valuable than reading a book. Personally, I believe that reading is the best gadget to improve our skills. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
Reading gives you a chance to learn how the words are spelled. When you are reading a novel, you might encounter words that you think you may have never seen it before. However, the reality might be that you have heard the word before, knowing the meaning by its sound and not how it is written. My personal life is a compelling example of this. About a month ago, I was reading a book called Big Short, about the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States. During my reading, I faced a myriad of "new" words. Later, I searched those words in the dictionary and I found out that I have heard them before; however, I did not know how to write them. In the contrast, when I watched the movie about the book, I felt like that was not something possible to do, because I was just passively watching the film.
Secondly, reading is much more active than watching shows on a screen. That is to say, when you are watching something, you do not have to imagine how the scene looks like. It feels like that you can think about something else while watching the film. For instance, when I was watching the Big Short movie, I did not have to imagine the environment, nor how the actors looked like. It was all there for me through the beautiful film on the screen. Meanwhile, reading the book required my full attention. I had to imagine the scene, so I literally had to put my brain to work. I could not read without paying attention like in the movie. Moreover, I really needed to concentrate in the words and figure out how they sound in other to comprehensively understand the story.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that reading it is much more educational than just watching a show on your magic screen at home. This is because reading can teach you how to spell the words and is an active way to learn something new, requiring your full attention.
- Children over the age of 15 should be allowed to vote. 90
- Children over the age of 15 should be allowed to vote. 70
- Some parents forbid young children from owning smartphones (cell phones with Internet access), while others disagree and believe that they are important tools for keeping in touch. Which point of view do you think is better, and why? 60
- Reading is more educational than watching television or movies. 70
- Children over the age of 15 should be allowed to vote. 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, such as, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 43.0788530466 144% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1895.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 421.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.50118764846 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5054890345 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498812351544 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 583.2 618.680645161 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.8874000457 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.3913043478 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3043478261 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.69565217391 5.45110844103 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222233688004 0.236089414692 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738470705103 0.076458572812 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106958618766 0.0737576698707 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162764046594 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594135907008 0.0645574589148 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.9 11.7677419355 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.82 10.9000537634 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.15 8.01818996416 89% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.