Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Students can learn as much by watching movies as they can learn by reading books. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
There are various enjoyable ways for students to acquire knowledge and open up their horizon. Personally, I believe students can learn much more through books than movies. I feel this way for three reasons, which I will explore in the following assay.
To begin with, movies explore themes in visual and verbal ways, while books require us to imagine through their description. The direct impaction of visualization seems more effective, but it is more beneficial to develop extensive thinking by reading books. Also, sounds and pictures from movies can distract you, while books help concentrate on the worth-thinking theme itself. My personal experience is a compelling illustration of this. When I am reading fiction novels, I always envision the depiction of scenes in the book and assume I become a character in the book. But disappointingly, though the pictures of movies are shocking and aesthetic, I feel a bit pity as it can’t be superb fit with my imagination. What’s worse, I have less following thinking after watching movies than that of reading books.
Besides, there are a great many topics that we can choose from to read, but when it comes to movies it may be limited to a narrower range, due to the length of movie, technology or other reasons. Abundant subjects connotes more fields that students can learn from. For instance, my cousin is really obsessed with history books and have read many books of this type. It can combine noteworthy historical events with intriguing stories. He sometimes narrates tale after tale to me, which attracts me a lot. However, it is hardly possible for movies to cover this as it has so wide a time range and so many stories that are worthwhile to know. If it is made into movies, it may neglect lots of details. Learners like my cousin get more comprehensive knowledge of history by reading books.
In conclusion, based on the arguments explored above, I am of the opinion that students can learn more by reading than watching movies. This is because learners have more room to imagine as well as think, and can get access to various topics.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, may, really, so, well, while, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1747.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 357.0 407.700716846 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89355742297 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.700024396 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554621848739 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.607658112 48.9658058833 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.35 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.85 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 5.45110844103 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271775317719 0.236089414692 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0822762669101 0.076458572812 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695895253033 0.0737576698707 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172899408823 0.150856017488 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.010520288547 0.0645574589148 16% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 11.7677419355 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.