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, we are living in a highly-developed society, with a lot of news resources, including Newspapers, radio stations, TV programs, and even Internet. Some are good at rich contents, while some might be up-to-date. We can all select between which resources we want to adopt and which kind of news we want to know, and many of us do make the decision. We may familiar with Yahoo news, CNN, or some local news paper and believe the news provided are trustworthy and well-informed, putting others away. However, in my own opinion, if we want to be well-informed, we need to gather information form m...
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Sentence: We may familiar with Yahoo news, CNN, or some local news paper and believe the news provided are trustworthy and well-informed, putting others away.
Description: A modal auxillary is not usually followed by an adjective
Suggestion: Refer to may and familiar
Sentence: As a result, if we eager to know what happen in Boston bombing, we have to turn on computer to search on the internet.
Description: A pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular is not usually followed by an adjective
Suggestion: Refer to we and eager
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Score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 489 350
No. of Characters: 2253 1500
No. of Different Words: 239 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.702 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.607 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.529 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 96 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.441 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.532 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.173 0.07
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