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 differentr

Thanks to the development of communication technologies, nowadays people can gain massive amounts of information in a relatively short period. A variety of different new sources have created on TV, the Internet and social media. Since news plays a crucial part in our daily life, it is important to choose them wisely. In my point of view, it will be better to read news provided by people with different perspectives.

First of all, information from a variety of sources reveals the truth more accurately. Since different news sources give a wide range of viewpoints, it provides us a whole picture of an event. While gathering information about political or economic news, it is especially important to refer to news from different media agencies. Recent research shows that around forty percent of political news are biased because they include too much personal opinions rather than facts. Take my country for example, more than fifty percent of political news are purposely created in order to make people vote for specific political parties. Therefore, referring to a variety of news sources plays an import part not only in gathering facts but also in decision making.

Secondly, gaining information from different sources expands one’s horizon. Since perspective is the way individuals see the world, which is shaped by experiences, value and the assumption they bring into the situation, reading news from perspectives give us meaningful opportunities to reflect the blind spots we have. Take my own experience for example, I was used to reading technology news from one single company. One day, I accidentally saw a sociology magazine which introduces some development of technology in sociology fields. It wasn’t until that day did I realize there can be a strong connection between social science and computer science. This interesting experience reminds me the importance of expanding my horizon by reading various kinds of materials.

Finally, the ability of digesting various information sources can help people learn the value of respect and tolerance, which can be significantly crucial at work. In contrast to receiving news from single view point, people may find it difficult to accept disparate opinions because digesting information from different perspectives can be painstaking. However, it is still worthwhile to spend some time listening to other opinions because one can build up special characteristics such as leadership.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that gathering news from different sources is valuable. This is because it gives us meaningful opportunities to better connecting the world, and it also broadens our horizon. Furthermore, reading different information help us learn to respect to others.

Votes
Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, first of all, in contrast to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.0752688172 235% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2336.0 1977.66487455 118% => OK
No of words: 428.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45794392523 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0302107984 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544392523364 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 733.5 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.9645950758 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.181818182 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4545454545 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.31818181818 5.45110844103 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150628710078 0.236089414692 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0468326583504 0.076458572812 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489613589135 0.0737576698707 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.08936256391 0.150856017488 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454804674306 0.0645574589148 70% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 11.7677419355 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 10.9000537634 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 86.8835125448 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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