Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It is critically important that we make an indelible impact in everyone's life we come in contact with. This would portray us as people people of influence and will even make us happy. Personally, I believe that teachers are more influential in student's life than friends. There are two reasons why I feel this way which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, a student needs not just knowledge to fulfill his academic goals, certain skill or the other is also required and this can be learnt from teachers. One may argue that we can learn a skill from a friend, but has the friend not assumed the position of a teacher the moment he imparts knowledge into us?. So, it is safe to state that teachers influence us more than friends do. I would like to support this point with a compelling illustration. During my final year of study in the university, I was to carry out an investigation into the geotechnical properties of some tailings samples in my undergraduate thesis. The project required a grand understanding of python programming language. I found it rather difficult to go about my investigation because I had a subpar knowledge of python programme. Therefore, I discussed my plight with Professor John, one of my lecturers and he was willing to be of help. The professor took me through the nitty-gritty of creating the required model for my project using python programme. It was such an exhaustive five weeks of tutorial with him. I was indeed taken by professor's willingness to dedicate such time for me despite the fact that he was not my thesis supervisor. I completed my undergraduate research successfully and the paper was even published in a reputable journal. This example clearly illustrates the extent to which my teacher was influential in my life.
Furthermore, certain life changing opportunities can come to us through teachers. Our instructors supposedly have wide range of experience on how students can navigate academic path and make use the best of it. For instance, upon the completion of my first degree, I was on look out for post graduate scholarships that would sponsor my master's degree abroad. Through Dr. Mrs Helen, my high school geography tutor, I got to know about commonwealth shared scholarship to the United Kingdom. She, infact wrote a recommendation letter for me and I was eventually selected for the fully funded scholarship. Had I not kept in contact with Helen, my school teacher, I may not have maximized the life-changing scholarship opportunity.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that the impacts that teachers have in student's life surpasses that made by a friend. This is because a student can acquire more than knowledge from his teacher and through teachers, excellent opportunities can come to a student - such that a friend may not be able to afford.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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... to us through teachers. Our instructors supposedly have wide range of experience...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, look, may, so, therefore, as to, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, 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: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 43.0788530466 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2358.0 1977.66487455 119% => OK
No of words: 477.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94339622642 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99928505804 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519916142558 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 729.9 618.680645161 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 20.0 9.59856630824 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.3790353366 48.9658058833 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.32 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.08 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72 5.45110844103 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150061576623 0.236089414692 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0490903727397 0.076458572812 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0597061069398 0.0737576698707 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106700517373 0.150856017488 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449253276129 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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