As school life consists of a considerably large part of children's daily life, teachers and friends are most likely to exert influence on them. There are something that everyone can take into consideration to investigate the level of influence from teachers and friends. Some might contend that teachers play a more important role in the growth of children as they brings about knowledge and act as role models for youngsters. However, I would like to suggest that friends have a larger impact on students.
First and foremost, being at the same age, students have a lot in common, which makes them more impressionable to each other. For instance, a student may be good at drawing and show some of his or her paintings to one of the friends. Amazed by the lovely paintings, the friend of that student is likely to be deeply affected and motivated to learn it as well, believing that it is not impossible for a student at his or her age to do well. On the contrary, though teachers can provide formal guide to students on painting, they are not as encouraging as friends.
Secondly, friends are more approachable to students compared to teachers. It is not uncommon for friends to talk about almost any topic to each other, from study, life to games, for instance. If students have some thoughts or problems that they are not willing to talk to adults, they would absolutely turn to their friends for help. When discussing solutions of these problems and questions, students pick up their friend' way of thinking and doing things, unconsciously putting themselves under the impact of their friends.
Last, an additional argument comes to mind is that teachers do not understand each child as thoroughly as their friends do, for a teacher is expected to pay attention to a large group of children, whilst a student only have a few close friends. Therefore, the help or guidance offered by the teacher might be too general and not applicable to a certain student. It is also difficult for teachers to talk to students intimately, restricting the influence teachers have on students.
Due to aforementioned ground, I firmly believe that students are more affected by their friends than by their teachers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 365, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'bring'
Suggestion: bring
... role in the growth of children as they brings about knowledge and act as role models ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, for instance, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1837.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 374.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91176470588 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77140681949 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 212.727598566 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.510695187166 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 546.3 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0206618237 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.8125 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.375 20.6045352989 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1875 5.45110844103 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207553948089 0.236089414692 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0787199838463 0.076458572812 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053815469961 0.0737576698707 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139195168462 0.150856017488 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0461750253126 0.0645574589148 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 11.7677419355 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 86.8835125448 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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