Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, email, or telephone calls. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, email, or telephone calls. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

In my opinion both face to face speaking and other types are two completely different ways of communication. It is really difficult to determine which of the two is better. Some people may like face to face, however some may prefer far distance communication such as telephone calls, but I like to communicate face to face with my contacts and if one considers the following reasons he/she may agree with the statement as I do.

First, you can convey your emotions better in the face to face speaking. Since just writing can be used in the emails or letters, is really hard to demonstrate your felling to your friends and contacts. Telephone calls may be a bit better in this case, but it cannot be substituted with face to face communication. For example, last month I sent an email to my brother john and asked him about his illness. I was heard that he got cold, but he was not convenient to visit. So I had to use telecommunication and I choose email. He just answered me that he is fine in one short sentence and I couldn't know that is he all right or he just didn't want make me nervous, because it is not possible to show your emotion completely just through the words. As you can see, it is better to visit your contacts directly.

Second, you can spend more time with your friends. In the telecommunications such as telephone calls you only can speak for a short time with your audience, but in the face to face communication there are a lot of opportunity to have fun and amazing moments. For instance, I saw my close friend last week in the park and then we went to cinema to watch a movie. It was wonderful experience for us to be together after five years. As far as I am concerned, no one can create this moments and felling with telecommunications.

In sum up, I agree with the title statement that face to face contact is better than others. By doing this, not only you can show your felling, but also there is a chance for you to spend more time and to have excellent moments. I suggest you to leave your phones away and visit your dad, mother or any other members in your family face to face.

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Since just writing can be used in the emails or letters, is really hard to demonstrate
Since just writing can be used in the emails or letters, it is really hard to demonstrate

there are a lot of opportunity
there are a lot of opportunities

It was wonderful experience
It was a wonderful experience

not only you can show your felling, but also there is a chance for you to spend more time
Description: 'Not only...but also' is not used properly. can you re-write this sentence?

Sentence: As far as I am concerned, no one can create this moments and felling with telecommunications.
Description: A determiner/pronoun, singular is not usually followed by a noun, plural, common
Suggestion: Refer to this and moments

flaws:
The examples are not developed well. It could be one sentence as one example. and it is better to have three reasons.

Try this pattern:

Para 1: introduction. my choice: A or B. agree or disagree. (suppose we support side A)

Para 2: First, reason 1 (1 sentence) + why reason 1(some arguments. 2-3 sentences) + examples for reason 1 (around 1 sentences) + small conclusions (like advantages of reason 1 or comparisons if not reason 1, 1-2 sentences).

Para 3: Second, reason 2, blabla... do the same thing as First

Para 4: Admittedly, there are some advantages of side B. first,....second...However, there is no causation/relation... Still I support side A, ....

Para 5: Conclusion.

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Score: 21 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 395 350
No. of Characters: 1678 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.458 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.248 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.607 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 89 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 66 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 42 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.789 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.7 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.225 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5

" How about this one? I wrote this in more than 30 min"
In my opinion, both face to face communication and telecommunications are two necessary ways to contact with other people because our lives based on dealing with people who live beside and far from us. To agree or disagree with the statement that Face-to-face is better than other types is a matter of balancing its pros and cons and it is really difficult to determine which of the two techniques is better. Comparing the features of the two methods, I would stress the following points of differences.

First, face-to-face speaking is a better way for conveying emotions, since you can feel and see your contact in front of you, while it is extremely challenging to demonstrate emotions through words only in letters or emails. I will exemplify my point with a true story of myself about three months ago, when I send an email to my brother who was in Tehran. Hearing that he got cold, I had to write an email to him because I couldn't go to visit him and I wanted to know is he okay and help him if he needed. He just answered me in a short sentence that 'I am okay, thank you', and that's why I couldn't understand that is he all right or he didn't want me became nervous. If I could go there and see him directly, I could figure it out with his situation. What I am trying to say is that you can get better understanding from your contacts with face to face dealing.

On the other hand, it may take a lot of time and money for you if you want to meet all of your friends or other people directly. I mean that sometimes you will need to send a short message or ask something that is not essential or many similar circumstances. In such cases, telecommunications like emails or telephone calls absolutely will be perfect choice, resulting to save money and time. For instance, I can ask from one of my friends in turkey about its weather or culture without traveling to this country, or send him emails containing information about anything he wanted to know from mine. Furthermore, if I want to apply for a scholarship in foreign countries, emails and phone calls are the only ways that will work for me, which helps me to contact with professors and show them my abilities without spending any money and time. As you can see, nowadays in the modern age of communications, everyone will need to use from this technologies.

To sum up, taking all the factors into account, I want to admit that both ways are critical in humans lives. While none of the two can't be considered as an excellent way, I would place the telecommunication in a little bit higher position in terms of importance and show my disagreement with the title statement.