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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.

Books, without a shadow of a doubt, are the best way to learn something new. They have the ability to learn about and share extensive knowledge on a wide range of academic disciplines. While some may say that kids may only get valuable knowledge from books, others may argue that films can be just as informative. I tend to agree with the latter viewpoint.

To begin, sometimes watching a movie is more interesting than reading a book. Many people find it difficult to sit still for long periods of time and read, which can make reading feel tedious at times. Movies, on the other hand, are significantly more engaging since they are visual and frequently have action and suspense, which may keep audiences engaged throughout. Therefore, students who need to memorize information for tests or papers may benefit from watching movies instead of reading the material. A pupil, for instance, is more likely to retain information from a documentary about the Civil Rights Movement than from a history textbook. He or she will be able to visualize the Great March on Washington, hear Martin Luther King's address, and understand the tremendous energy that people felt at the time. The documentary succeeds where books fail by making history vivid through the use of images and music.

Films may be more appealing and spectacular than other media, and they can also cover a great deal of ground in a very short length of time. Especially beneficial for students with limited time who are attempting to learn about a certain topic, a typical feature-length film may present a tale from numerous angles that would take hundreds of pages to explain in a book. Use the classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" as an illustration. Scout, a small girl, is the narrator of the novel. She is present during the trial of a black guy accused of raping a white lady. The novel gives a lot of background about the town and its inhabitants, but it is just from Scout's point of view. The movie version of the novel provides a more comprehensive look at the community and its people. The tale is told through the perspectives of a number of individuals, including Scout's father, Atticus Finch. This allows us to observe what happens from a variety of angles and to better understand the characters and what drives them. Not until the film adaptation of the book was released could the general public have gained so much insight.

As this article has shown, films may be just as effective a teaching tool as books.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 791, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e look at the community and its people. The tale is told through the perspectives o...
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Line 5, column 1092, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...tion of the book was released could the general public have gained so much insight. As thi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, still, therefore, while, for instance, 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: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 43.0788530466 44% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2078.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 430.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83255813953 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70468615627 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579069767442 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 643.5 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2274481303 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.4545454545 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5454545455 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90909090909 5.45110844103 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => 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: 0.189163184955 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.048781508938 0.076458572812 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514160818448 0.0737576698707 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0983537443031 0.150856017488 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592761190355 0.0645574589148 92% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 11.7677419355 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 10.73 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => 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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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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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