TPO-19 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In order to be well-informed, a person must get information from many different news resources. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Nowadays there are a countless number of newspapers, websites, and other media as the information source. The increasing number shows the importance of free flow of information in today’s world. Some people agree that using different sources is essential to be well-informed, others disagree. I agree that several different sources are needed to be sure about the authenticity of news and having a comprehensive view.

First, different news sources cover information related to the news from variable angles. So if one person wants to be informed in a comprehensive way, should use some different media. For example, I read some newspaper and websites when I want to be comprehensively informed. Five months ago, in the news regarding firing a school in one small town, every source investigated the incident from its own view. One of them reported that the school officials were culpable of this disaster because they did not provide standard heaters for schools. But another website accused the education minister as the main culprit of this burning because of not providing the school with enough budget. Or another media’s culprit was the company making the hitters and etc… Hence I could investigate different reasons of this incident and my information was more comprehensive rather than if I wanted to read the news just from one or two sources.

Furthermore, the better able a person is to obtain information from different sources, the easier someone can determine this information is genuine or not. Some people may refuse my first point by indicating that too many sources make people get confused by a plenty of information; however, they do not take a critical aspect into consideration—that fake information is not amenable. The earthquake happened in Japan last month can function as a good example to illustrate this point. My sister texted every member of her family, friend, and classmate when the earthquake broke out, saying that 2012 was approaching and there would a huge earthquake broke out in Taiwan after 1 hour. This information was not true at all. The story could have been very different if she had discovered conflicting news from other media. Maybe after watching the same news from CNN, BBC, or NHK, she can immediately identify this was a fake news, which just wanted to let people panic. Hence, it was the limited information sources that made her do something unwise.

Nevertheless, there is no perfect thing in the world. There are some disadvantages in getting information from many different news sources, such as taking time. Even in some specific occasions, it seems hard to obtain any news. Yet, things have changed this few years. With the maturity of WI-FI, we can almost get online everywhere and every time, so it is not to worry about missing any latest news anymore.

To conclude, people should acquire information from many sources as more as possible. For one thing, they can offset different stances of news sources, and for the other, they can avoid getting biased information.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nevertheless', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'for example', 'such as', 'for one thing']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.223801065719 0.229887763892 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.165186500888 0.158761421928 104% => OK
Adjectives: 0.101243339254 0.0866891130778 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0497335701599 0.046263068375 108% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0390763765542 0.0685040099705 57% => OK
Prepositions: 0.108348134991 0.118717715034 91% => OK
Participles: 0.044404973357 0.0351676179071 126% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.85794589654 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0213143872114 0.0309702414327 69% => OK
Particles: 0.00355239786856 0.00188951952338 188% => OK
Determiners: 0.101243339254 0.0887237588012 114% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0213143872114 0.0209618222197 102% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0088809946714 0.0139019557991 64% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3078.0 2387.08602151 129% => OK
No of words: 499.0 408.028673835 122% => OK
Chars per words: 6.16833667335 5.86048508987 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.48200974243 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.37875751503 0.338922669872 112% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.264529058116 0.251872472559 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.186372745491 0.174417080927 107% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.132264529058 0.112833075102 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85794589654 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535070140281 0.524397521467 102% => OK
Word variations: 64.7757187536 59.2087087015 109% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6684587814 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.1923076923 20.5533526081 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6724164313 48.84282405 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.384615385 120.699889404 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1923076923 20.5533526081 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.576923076923 0.644075263715 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.5376344086 110% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.54480286738 180% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 45.6452135039 45.7405998639 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.48251748252 1.45489161554 102% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308346000931 0.300154397459 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0941994708506 0.103427244359 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0775653162161 0.0752933317313 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.440497090958 0.497263757937 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124140987099 0.151897553556 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106560350198 0.114077575197 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570977813672 0.0781384742642 73% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.335603904799 0.336927656856 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0869649272977 0.067059652881 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199900392124 0.210909579961 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385020955586 0.0618886996521 62% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8870967742 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.86379928315 336% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.91756272401 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 8.42114695341 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 12.0 2.4623655914 487% => Less negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.75985663082 72% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.6433691756 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.

Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 25 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 500 350
No. of Characters: 2469 1500
No. of Different Words: 260 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.729 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.938 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.707 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 176 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.231 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.653 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.291 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.469 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5