Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Students can learn as much by watching movies as they can learn by reading books

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Students can learn as much by watching movies as they can learn by reading books.

Without a question, books are a valuable source of information. They may give in-depth knowledge on a variety of issues and study history, science, and other academic disciplines. Some may argue that kids can only acquire significant knowledge through reading books, while others maintain that movies may be just as informative as books. I tend to agree with the latter position.

First, movies may be more fascinating than literature. Reading may be tedious at times, as many individuals find it difficult to sit still and read for lengthy periods. Movies, on the other hand, are far more engaging since they are visual and frequently contain action and suspense, which may retain viewers' attention for the duration. Thus, movies can be more remembered than texts, which is advantageous for students, particularly those who must prepare for examinations or papers. For instance, a student is more likely to retain information from a documentary about the Civil Rights Movement than from a history textbook on the same topic. He or she may see what the Great March on Washington looked like, listen to Martin Luther King's address, and experience the fervor of the time. The documentary brings history to life via the use of these images and sounds, an impression that could never be produced by reading texts.

In addition to being more appealing and stunning, films may also cover a great deal of territory in a short amount of time. A normal feature-length film may present a tale from several perspectives that would need hundreds of pages in a book, which is especially advantageous for students with limited time who are attempting to learn about a certain topic. Consider the literary classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the novel, Scout, a little girl who observes the trial of a black man accused of raping a white lady, narrates the narrative. The book contains a wealth of information about the individuals and the town, but only through Scout's perspective. In the film version of the novel, the town and its residents are depicted in considerably greater detail. We experience the story's events through the eyes of other individuals, including Atticus Finch, Scout's father, allowing us to observe the story's events from diverse perspectives and to gain a deeper understanding of the characters and their motivations. Without the film adaptation of the book, the audience would not have gained so much knowledge.

In conclusion, much like books, films may be a useful learning tool for pupils.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 190, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...nd other academic disciplines. Some may argue that kids can only acquire significant ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, so, still, thus, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 43.0788530466 37% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2111.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 412.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12378640777 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8842172856 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 212.727598566 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592233009709 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6214370467 48.9658058833 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.105263158 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6842105263 20.6045352989 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.10526315789 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => 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: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147565272142 0.236089414692 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0446583225392 0.076458572812 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0384933711802 0.0737576698707 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0967188676833 0.150856017488 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0245937480582 0.0645574589148 38% => 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: 13.5 11.7677419355 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 58.1214874552 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 86.8835125448 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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