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. Be sure to use your own words. Do not use memorized examples.
The topic of influence is interesting and quite confusing. Some students think they are more influenced by their teachers, while some others argue that influences from their friends are more. The prompt suggests that we do not belabour this point for too long, stating that "students are more influenced by their teacher than by their friends." In my view, I completely disagree with the prompt, and argue that friends have greater influence on students, than teachers do for the following reasons.
First, students spend more time with friends. Research has shown that the more time people spend together, the more the influence they have on one another. A student tends to have very limited time with his teacher. For example, a student who engages his teachers only during school hours, and spends all of the evenings, weekends, and holidays with friends and play group, will have more of his character and traits derived from these friends. As such, the impact a teacher will have on such a student will be very minimal, when compared to impact from friends.
Furthermore, students relate better with their friends than with their teachers. Influence is dependent on relationship. A relationship that is not healthy and well developed, will not allow for influence. Students have challenges relating with teachers, because teachers appear really strict. For example, I had a mathematics teacher in secondary school who was very stern. As a result, even when I had problems with solving an assignment, I preferred to engage my friends than going to visit the teacher. Hence, the teacher's influence on me was limited due to unhealthy relationship.
Of course, some might argue that the choice of a student's career is been decided by his teacher, and that is enough influence. However, this is not the case, as most student are prone to choosing a career based on engagements with friends. A recent class survey I conducted on college students showed that 90% of students chose a career based on their friend’s choice of career. This is also evident among professionals as you find more company developing from a group of friends.
In conclusion, students are more influenced by their friends than by their teacher, because, they spend more time with friends, and have a healthier relationship with them. This is a call for parents to be really careful when allowing friends around their ward as friends are so influential.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 302, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...rs only during school hours, and spends all of the evenings, weekends, and holidays with f...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, really, second, so, well, while, for example, in conclusion, of course, as a result, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2048.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 401.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1072319202 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.721110803 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.468827930175 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 588.6 618.680645161 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9479702687 48.9658058833 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5238095238 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0952380952 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52380952381 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
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: 0.268019983168 0.236089414692 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0900384206723 0.076458572812 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0690903504675 0.0737576698707 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176759076964 0.150856017488 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.067204958324 0.0645574589148 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => 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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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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