When people consider a major purchase, which of the following has the greatest impact on their choices?1. Recommendation from friends2. Information from magazines3. Reviews from online communities

When you make a purchase purposely or impulsively, you may need certainty for making sure of your choices. So, you can get some information about products you are going to buy from magazines or you can review from online websites such as blogs or social networks. However, I strongly believe that the little advice from friends has the greatest impact on your purchase.

To begin with, friends will recommend goods that you are fond of which means they will suggest what fits your needs and wants. So to speak, people share ideas and lifestyles with their friends. Thus, friends know your preferences, situations, and reasons why you need this product. Moreover, if you and your friend have known each other for a long time, in most cases, you have affinities with your friends in the shopping style. Because of this, there is an always opportunity that you are satisfied with the products friend recommend.

On top of that, friends are reliable ones. Their words have more trust-worthy than words from magazines or online. Magazines often advertise products on their pages to create profits. Therefore, nearly all products shown in the magazine are introduced with a lengthy explanation including a bunch of advantages. This is the same as online websites. For example, well-known bloggers earn money from advertising certain companies' products and services by contracting with them. They swiftly show the pros of products and services as a return, they are offered monetary benefits such as money or these products and services for free. However, the recommendation from friends is different from what I mentioned above. Friends can recommend the product that they have used for own purpose which allows them to thoroughly criticize its pros and cons. They will strictly evaluate the products and let you know for help with your decisions.

To sum up, I admit magazines and online communities may give specialized information for your purchases. However, the impact of those two is not overweight by that of friends' recommendation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 457, Rule ID: A_RB_NN[1]
Message: You used an adverb ('always') instead an adjective, or a noun ('opportunity') instead of another adjective.
...opping style. Because of this, there is an always opportunity that you are satisfied with the product...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, such as, you know, in most cases, so to speak, to begin with, to sum up, on top of that

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 52.1666666667 73% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1711.0 1977.66487455 87% => OK
No of words: 332.0 407.700716846 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15361445783 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6956114908 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563253012048 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 618.680645161 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.7023367142 48.9658058833 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.55 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 5.45110844103 142% => 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 : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186277927375 0.236089414692 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0649626386802 0.076458572812 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742834632703 0.0737576698707 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122430449185 0.150856017488 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0637050499044 0.0645574589148 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 11.7677419355 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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