Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important to read or watch the news presented by people whose views are similar to your own than by people whose views are different from yours.
Nowadays, it has become very important for most of the people to be aware of the news by watching TVs or by reading newspapers. There are a plethora of sources which they can utilize to gain data. However, these sources fall into two categories, the sources which are similar to our point of view and those which stands against our perspective. Some people prefer to attend news’ offered by people whose ideas are similar to them, while others choose the opposite. Personally, I have a penchant for gaining information from those whose viewpoints are different from mine. I think this way for two main reasons which will be elaborated upon hereunder.
Firstly, not only will it helps you increase your information about the subject, but also expands the scope of your perspective about the very issue. By attending news from presenters who have different Idea, you will notice various horizons of the subject which you could not have become aware of If you have only chosen to look after broadcasts similar to your beliefs. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. Last week I was watching a sports tv program in which some specialists were discussing the factors which led to bad performance of my favorite football team. Before watching that, I was only blaming the players for the poor results. However, hearing the different views of the specialists which were broader than my limited way of looking, changed my mind. Therefore, I noticed that the couch of the team should be blamed, as well. As you can see hearing the different points of view, increased my horizons of my knowledge concerning the subject.
Secondly, It will reinforce people’s critical thinking. Everybody has a personal opinion about an issue, which is based on several assumptions. Not until they hear different outlooks of others, people will notice that there is not only one explanation of a phenomenon. This may encourage them to look for the premises which different views of others are based upon. They may challenge them or assumptions of the others may criticize their own beliefs. Therefore their way of thinking will be critical. For example, last year, in my psychology class I had a discussion with my teacher regarding the causes of anxiety. Both of us had a different explanation of that. I probed the fundamental assumptions which my teacher’s theory was based and I noticed that he is in favor of the school of thought which believes that people’s special ways of thinking result in anxiety; however, I subscribed to the Idea that some neurochemical factors initiate anxiety. That is how I challenged my teachers' way of thinking. This experience taught me that critical thinking will be elevated when hearing various and opposite points.
To sum up, with all this taken into account, I do believe that to follow news from sources which have variant view compared to yours is a good choice on the ground that it will expands your perspective, and stimulates critical thinking. Not doing so will result in a narrow, biased, and incomplete thinking.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 456, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'sports'' or 'sport's'?
Suggestion: sports'; sport's
...ple of this. Last week I was watching a sports tv program in which some specialists we...
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Line 3, column 78, Rule ID: PERSONAL_OPINION_FRIENDSHIP[1]
Message: Use simply 'opinion'.
Suggestion: opinion
...os;s critical thinking. Everybody has a personal opinion about an issue, which is based on sever...
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Line 3, column 458, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...others may criticize their own beliefs. Therefore their way of thinking will be critical....
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Line 4, column 179, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'expand'
Suggestion: expand
... good choice on the ground that it will expands your perspective, and stimulates critic...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, for example, i think, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 28.0 11.0286738351 254% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 68.0 43.0788530466 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2569.0 1977.66487455 130% => OK
No of words: 513.0 407.700716846 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00779727096 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75914943092 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76777447125 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 212.727598566 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.499025341131 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 785.7 618.680645161 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0491413773 48.9658058833 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1481481481 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.14814814815 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.85842293907 285% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235049331508 0.236089414692 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0578814684551 0.076458572812 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0598942209319 0.0737576698707 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151134738496 0.150856017488 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0481776614339 0.0645574589148 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 86.8835125448 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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