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.

There is no denying that teachers and friends both play vital roles in our students’ lives because teachers impart useful knowledge and friends bring us much pleasure. Some individuals believe that friends make a bigger difference than teachers since friends are the people who know us pretty well. Is that true? My answer is definitely negative and I firmly hold the opinion that we students are more influenced by teachers than by friends.

One of the chief reasons why teachers have more profound influence over students is that students have natural faith in teachers, which means our teachers shape our values, views on life and world outlooks. A good example to illustrate this would be my own experience. When I was in primary school, one of my classmates, Jack, was the victim of a class bully. To the best of my recollection, he was constantly pointed and laughed at owing to his obesity, poverty and untidiness. Our class teacher neglected his suffering, for she disliked Jack who did poorly in academics. Once Jack complained to the head teacher about being bullied in our class, we thought we would be punished, but it turned out that the teacher asked him to reflect on himself. As a result, no one gave a hand to Jack. He transferred to a new school at last.

Secondly, teachers are more learned and experienced, which explains why they can view things from a different angle and give students some advice that can be highly enlightening, thereby affecting students’ lives. For instance, I always consult my teachers for advice when encountering problems or setbacks in life, and they never let me down. However, it’s a different picture when it comes to asking friends for help. Because we are at the same age, they can’t be more mature and they can’t give us the help we need.

To sum up, based on what has been stated above, I suppose we have good reasons to draw the conclusion that it is teachers rather than friends that have greater influence on students.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, well, for instance, i suppose, as a result, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 43.0788530466 111% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 52.1666666667 71% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1669.0 1977.66487455 84% => OK
No of words: 342.0 407.700716846 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88011695906 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69328086936 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 502.2 618.680645161 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.3539492323 48.9658058833 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.1764705882 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1176470588 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.82352941176 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158789981846 0.236089414692 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0493705702244 0.076458572812 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0623264138919 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103313473685 0.150856017488 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0443444979651 0.0645574589148 69% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 10.9000537634 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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