“We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.”
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reasons on which that claim is based.
In today's increasingly polarized world, people are becoming increasingly exposed to schools of thought contradicting their own. In response to this change, some have questioned the educational value of such exposure. However, I firmly believe that although people having similar views can be enlightening, communication with people having opposing views are more educationally stimulating.
To begin with, information exchange with people of the opposite opinion can help us gain a more objective understanding of the world. If we trap ourselves inside the bubble of only one point of view, we will always see the world around us in only one way. By contrast, allowing exposure to opposite points of view forces us to look at our preëxisting beliefs and knowledge from another perspective. This will help us better learn the pros and cons of our view, and learn why people think differently from the way we do. For example, the majority of conservative politicians in the United States often disregard the viewpoints of left-leaning people, dismissing them as unimportant. Yet, a small number of conservatives have made an attempt to understand the rationale behind the views and the thoughts of their more liberal peers. After such experience, they have revealed that they now look at their previous opinions as woefully subjective and lacking in reason.
On top of that, learning from people with contradictory views can foster sympathy. We often take notice of the actions and words associated with another person's viewpoint. Yet, rarely do we ever take into account what has led them to believe and see the world in such a way. By understand what informed a person's outlook towards events in life, we can learn how to sympathize with people leading different lives from us. For instance, a person who supports the abolishment of college debt may have had a hard time paying off that debt in the past, and they do not want future generations to continnue having such a burden. Meanwhile, someone who is vehemently opposed to LGBTQ+ rights may be brought up in a conservative household, where homophobic and transphobic views reign supreme.
To sum up, an objective view of the world and a sense of sympathy can be achieved by learning from people whose views are opposite to our own. For these reasons, I firmly believe we can learn more from people with opposing views than those with similar views.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Suggestion: persons'; person's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, may, so, while, for example, for instance, 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 : 7.0 15.1003584229 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2023.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 397.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09571788413 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84750650713 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551637279597 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 623.7 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.335571753 48.9658058833 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.388888889 100.406767564 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0555555556 20.6045352989 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.45110844103 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301393961781 0.236089414692 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105734878783 0.076458572812 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0976532730024 0.0737576698707 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221930760936 0.150856017488 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0914045502039 0.0645574589148 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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