Essay topics:
Sometimes people wish to be more confident, for example, they may want to express their opinions more frequently in meetings at work, or they may want to contribute more to class discussions at school. Which ONE of the following actions do you think would best help to increase confidence in these types of work or school situations? Why?
- Spending more time preparing for class discussions at school or meeting at work
- Learning about and practicing techniques to help you become more confident
- Finding a more experienced person who can give advice about how to handle these situations
Some people think that spending more time preparing for class discussions at school or meetings at work is the best method to increase confidence. Others claim that learning and practicing new techniques is preferable. Still, others maintain that finding a more experienced person who can give advice is the most ideal approach. As far as I am concerned, I would choose the second option. My reasons are as follows.
To begin with, to maximize confidence at school, people must have enough knowledge and skills to discuss with their classmates, and learning new techniques can undoubtedly help people increase their knowledge and become more confident. For example, I needed to participate in algorithms group discussions frequently, but initially, I was not knowledgeable in algorithms. Hence, I learned and practiced several beginner-level competitive programming problems diligently. Several weeks later, I could understand 90% of the lecture in the class, so I had enough confidence to contribute algorithmic ideas through class discussions. On the other hand, I once asked my senior classmates how to deal with such a situation. Unfortunately, they did not know that I had problems understanding even the most basic algorithm concepts, so they recommended I enhance my speaking skills. After adopting their advice, I figured out that even though my speaking skills improved, I still had difficulties understanding propriety nouns used in the lecture.
In addition, to boost confidence, people must have the ability to adapt to different situations, and spending more time practicing techniques can help people accommodate unexpected situations. For instance, I often stuttered during work metting, so I decided to practice my improvisation skills. Several weeks later, when my boss suddenly wanted to change the meeting topics, I could still present my reports smoothly. Contrarily, I once tried to overcome my speaking anxiety by memorizing every single line of my speech before meetings. Unfortunately, after my supervisor decided to change the topic, the lines that I memorized became useless; I still need to improvise my words, and I still stuttered during the meeting. So apparently, spending more time preparing for meetings cannot help me deal with various kinds of unexpected circumstances.
In conclusion, I maintain that learning or practicing techniques are the most ideal way to enhance people's confidence due to the aforementioned reasons. After all, people must build knowledge and learn how to tackle unpredictable situations to become confident.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, hence, if, second, so, still, after all, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 15.1003584229 40% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2183.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 394.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54060913706 4.8611393121 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1728781594 2.67179642975 119% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55076142132 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 667.8 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5235467952 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.15 100.406767564 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 5.45110844103 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190621495249 0.236089414692 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525371711572 0.076458572812 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067564497667 0.0737576698707 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117374898116 0.150856017488 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.056628119453 0.0645574589148 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 11.7677419355 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 10.9000537634 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 86.8835125448 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => 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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