Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to use printed materials such as books and articles to do research than it is to use the Internet Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to use printed materials such as books and articles to do research than it is to use the Internet. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify;line-height:20.4pt">class="it">it class="is">is critically important class="that">that students use the best available resources class="when">when they class="do">do class="research">research. In class="my">my opinion, class="it">it class="is">is far better to use printed materials class="than">than online sources. I feel this way for class="two">two reasons, class="which">which I will explore in the following essay.

class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify;line-height:20.4pt"> To begin with, printed materials class="such">such as books and articles are more reliable class="than">than websites. this class="is">is because websites class="can">can be edited by anyone in the world, regardless of whether or not they are qualified academics. As a result of this, even articles in popular online encyclopedias often class="contain">contain class="incorrect">incorrect and biased information. class="my">my own experience demonstrates the danger of relying too heavily on online sources of information. class="two">two semesters ago, I was assigned a class="research">research paper in a freshman history class. I cited data class="that">that I found on Wikipedia class="which">which later turned out to be completely class="incorrect">incorrect. this data was so hopelessly wrong class="that">that class="my">my professor spotted class="it">it immediately, causing me to fail the assignment and receive a fairly low grade in the class at the end of the semester. If I had taken the time to compare what I had read online to a book or a scholarly article I would not have included class="it">it, and would not have received class="such">such a terrible score in the class.

class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify;line-height:20.4pt"> Secondly, books are superior to online articles because they cover topics in much detail. Textbooks are significantly longer class="than">than online articles, so they are more useful to students. students who use them class="when">when doing projects class="can">can also look at the detailed indexes class="which">which they include to focus on very specific topics. For example, class="when">when I wrote an essay last semester in a history class, the very first book class="that">that I consulted contained a long description of the both the underlying causes and long-term effects of the historical event I was writing about. In contrast, most of the online articles class="that">that I consulted contained little more class="than">than superficial facts and dates. I based class="my">my class="research">research on the book rather class="than">than these articles, so I was able to write a very insightful essay.

class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify;line-height:20.4pt"> In conclusion, I strongly believe class="that">that printed information class="is">is more useful class="than">than online resources. this class="is">is because books and printed journals are less likely to be biased or class="contain">contain errors, and because books provide a superior level of detail.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, look, second, secondly, so, for example, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, as a result, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3579.0 1977.66487455 181% => OK
No of words: 394.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 9.08375634518 4.8611393121 187% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 11.2159106429 2.67179642975 420% => Word_Length_SD is high.
Unique words: 210.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532994923858 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 981.0 618.680645161 159% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 2.5 1.51630824373 165% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 9.59856630824 219% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 11.0 3.51792114695 313% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.1636170231 48.9658058833 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 188.368421053 100.406767564 188% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7368421053 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78947368421 5.45110844103 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 5.5376344086 307% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0523981795547 0.236089414692 22% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0357444101798 0.076458572812 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0299593959395 0.0737576698707 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0484826076818 0.150856017488 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0123840176136 0.0645574589148 19% => 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: 31.7 11.7677419355 269% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -24.96 58.1214874552 -43% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 6.10430107527 213% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 21.7 10.1575268817 214% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 35.38 10.9000537634 325% => Coleman_liau_index is high.
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.24 8.01818996416 115% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 86.8835125448 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => 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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