TPO 47- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is important to know about events happening around the world, even if it is unlikely that they will affect your daily life. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

It is often said the era that we live in is the information age as people can have access to a handful of news around the world in the blink of an eye through the broadcasting media. However, whether one must expose himself to such news or not regardless of the fact that it might be neutral to his personal life is a matter of debate. In this regard, people have contrasting views. While some believe that it is crucial to catch up with the latest news around the globe no matter that it affects us directly or not, others hold the opposite view. Personally speaking, I am in accord with the latter statement and the following are the reasons to substantiate my view.

To start with, being aware of the events occurring in the world, enables us to get in touch with news regarding the natural catastrophes that hit nations and to assist them by providing humanitarian aids. Now and then, natural disasters, like earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornados ravage a part of the planet and impose difficulties on people who get hit by those phenomena. In this case, it is important that the rest of the world become aware of the situation as soon as possible and offer their condolences and assistance to the suffered nation. Therefore, following the world's affairs from the media may not have a great impact on our lives, but certainly, it affects the lives of those who are in dire need of basic requirements, by raising a worldwide alliance to help them, since a catastrophic calamity devoured their homes and families.

Moreover, following the world news increase our general knowledge about other countries which might not directly affect our lives but it will come in handy when we travel abroad. The information about different cultures and countries that we get from the news media is the cheapest and the most convenient way to better know the world beyond the borders of our homelands. The importance of such knowledge may not be clear for us at the time being but it reveals itself when we decide to study abroad or travel to another county for business or pleasure. In such circumstances, a trivial fact that we have learned it accidentally from a piece of news related to the country in which we are going to travel could cause a good feeling. For instance, once I traveled to India to conduct business. I had learned by chance a traditional way of greeting in Hindi when I was watching news about India a couple of years ago and It remained in my mind as I found it peculiar. At the airport, I took a cab and I greeted the driver in the traditional way. The driver was so delighted that a foreigner greeted him in their way and he did not accept any money for the fair when he took me to the hotel. So, a trivial point created a pleasing memory for me on that trip.

To sum up, I believe that being aware of world news, even if it does not affect us directly is important. This is because it enables us to stay tuned with natural disasters across the world and to help the injured via humanitarian organizations and because little facts that we might learn about other countries which would come in handy in the future when we travel abroad.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, therefore, while, for instance, to start with, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.0286738351 199% => OK
Pronoun: 70.0 43.0788530466 162% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 52.1666666667 165% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2589.0 1977.66487455 131% => OK
No of words: 567.0 407.700716846 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.56613756614 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87972968509 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5971776754 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 212.727598566 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490299823633 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 812.7 618.680645161 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 20.1344086022 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.8210752853 48.9658058833 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.45 100.406767564 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.35 20.6045352989 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => 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: 0.118266248746 0.236089414692 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.036257831934 0.076458572812 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0351744918239 0.0737576698707 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0769775510271 0.150856017488 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0156480497222 0.0645574589148 24% => 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: 14.3 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 10.1575268817 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.52 10.9000537634 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.0537634409 131% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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