Unfortunately, in contemporary society, creating an appealing image has become more important than the reality or truth behind that image.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Welcome the guest looking at his/her outfit, send away looking at their character, is a saying I have heard a lot. Looks like judging the book by the cover been around for a long time at least to some extend. However, our prompt claims one step further and I am afraid I should mostly agree with this stance thinking of the various situations and the cases I have witnessed.
Firstly, I would like to start by mentioning various social experiments on social networks and also some similar examples of my own connection circle that, too many people judge the others by the image that everyone sees, rather than looking behind the portrait drawn. One type of the most common examples of these social experiments are around known with the name “gold digger” where a guy approaches to a woman kindly but looking poor gets rejected very rudely at first. Then the same guy comes back with a luxury sports car and the very same woman would jump in there like she is not the same person. These experiments are one of the examples that in social life there are lots of cases people just look at the image to decide whether they will give you a chance or not in the first place and makes me to think that the prompt reflects the reality.
Secondly, it is not just in the social life, there are studies and personal examples as well showing the same type of the behaviour in the business life too. There are too many cases that when there is a job posting one would build a fake resume and one would go with his own credentials, where in the interview the same person would fake it accordingly and get the job without any further background check while the honest applicant will be left out. This situation is unfortunately supporting the claim in the prompt as well.
On the other hand, I should also mention that is not the case in all the times. First, we can go back to the examples above for instance. Not all the people are the same when they build their social life connections, some people actually do not care how do you look or how do you present yourself, they actually value your personal and real qualities over the advertised one. Same with the job applications, some HRs and the managers attending the hiring process are very careful in their work and do their best to hire the right candidate without being fooled by the wrong self representations. Beside these cases there are some specific cases that the image is not seen by anyone at all. For example, there is no human interaction involved in some exams and whatever is your potential is graded directly by the machines or anonymously. In this case it would not support the idea that an appealing image would be more important than the reality.
In summary, although still there are plenty of cases where the image you form is not more important than the reality, there are a lot more cases and a trend towards where the cover of the book become more important than the content itself. Therefore, I believe the idea in the prompt mostly holds correct.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'extent' ("extent" is a noun, "extend" is a verb)?
Suggestion: extent
...around for a long time at least to some extend However our prompt claims one step furt...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ituations and the cases I have witnessed Firstly I would like to start by mention...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...pporting the claim in the prompt as well On the other hand I should also mention ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, well, while, at least, for example, for instance, in summary, i am afraid, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2441.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 543.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.49539594843 5.05705443957 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25007456612 2.79657885939 80% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454880294659 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 789.3 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 6.24550561798 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 20.2370786517 5% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 543.0 23.0359550562 2357% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 60.3974514979 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 2441.0 118.986275619 2051% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 543.0 23.4991977007 2311% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 227.0 5.21951772744 4349% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 10.2758426966 10% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.141383468247 0.243740707755 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141383468247 0.0831039109588 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0758088955206 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0873722852214 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0666796591673 0.0667264976115 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 271.3 14.1392134831 1919% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -471.21 48.8420337079 -965% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.92365168539 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 213.9 12.1743820225 1757% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 10.3 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 32.95 8.38706741573 393% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 52.0 11.8971910112 437% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 219.2 11.2143820225 1955% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 214.0 11.7820224719 1816% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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