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 meetings
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. Personally, I would choose the second option. My reasons are as follows.
To begin with, in order 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 was frequently required to take part in group discussions in a data structure and algorithms class. Nevertheless, I was not knowledgeable in algorithms before taking the lecture, so I learned and practiced several beginner-level competitive programming problems diligently to sharpen my algorithm skills. Several weeks later, I could understand 90% of the lecture in the class, and I had enough skills to contribute algorithmic ideas through class discussions confidently. On the other hand, I once asked my senior classmates how to deal with such a situation, but they all recommended me to practice public speaking instead. However, while their suggestions are partially true, according to my experience, such a skill did not help me perform better during the discussion because the proprietary nouns used in the class prevented me from understanding the lecture, resulting in less confidence.
In addition, people often encounter different situations in their office. Therefore, spending more time practicing some specific techniques can increase people's confidence. As an example, I was once required to participare in a machine learning group metting. Yet, I often stuttered when talking with others publicly, so I spent more than three hours per day memorizing my speech. Unfortunately, my supervisor decided to change the topic to "reinforcement learning model" ten minutes before the meeting. Consequently, the lines that I memorized a week ago become useless, I still stuttered a lot in the meeting. Contrarily, my brother worked in an IT company, and his boss frequently required him to conduct a short report on customers' behavior on the company's website every week. As a result, he practiced his public speaking skills every day, so when his boss decided to switch topics, he could still present his reports smoothly. Evidently, improving skills is the best way to deal with all sorts of situations and become more confident.
In conclusion, I maintain that learning or practicing techniques is 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.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, therefore, while, after all, for example, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2435.0 1977.66487455 123% => OK
No of words: 446.0 407.700716846 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45964125561 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13789297747 2.67179642975 117% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544843049327 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 742.5 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.3416072094 48.9658058833 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.681818182 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2727272727 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.18181818182 5.45110844103 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.185521776226 0.236089414692 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523637810891 0.076458572812 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691676955973 0.0737576698707 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121395566248 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0705085058169 0.0645574589148 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 10.9000537634 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 86.8835125448 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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