TPO41 Independent
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Teacher were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they were nowadays.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Since the dawn of civilization, people have attached great importance to education and teachers thereby have been widely respected. However, with a range of radical changes in society – from the Internet to family education – some argue that teachers nowadays are not receiving as much appreciation as they were before. I agree with the view.
To begin with, teachers’ social status has been weakened. A century ago, teachers were almost certainly among the most educated members of their communities. This meant that they were, to some extent, looked up to because of their learning. Back in the day when schools and colleges was not financially supported by the government, hardly could the majority receive formal education not only due to the expensive tuition fees but also because people needed to work to earn a living at a very young age. Yet more and more people can learn how to read and write and have a broader range of knowledge in art as well as science. For example, it used to require a bachelor’s or even doctor’s degree to be a teacher which only a few elites could get. However, now we can see universities are full of undergraduate and graduate students who want to be expertise in various fields, such as business, engineering, literature etc., and they have no less insight than teachers do. Accordingly, teachers are no longer looked up to because of their education.
Moreover, parents do not truly understand what teachers do in the classroom. Everyone has been to school, and therefore everyone assumes they understand what goes on there – talking as the textbook says, marking papers, giving assignments, etc. It is seemly not difficult for today’s well-educated parents to do the same job. However, we seldom realize that it takes a great amount of time and effort to master the theory and practice of pedagogy. It looks, from outside, as if teaching is an easy job and teachers are not even doing it right. I know many parents who would rather teach their children by themselves than sending them to schools. This is unsurprising since scandals about juvenile crimes, drug abuse, gun violence, bullying and so forth happen almost in every state, leaving a bad impression on parents that school is not an effective place for education. So, as schools are not appreciated by parents, consequently, teachers are not valued by society as a member of schools.
All in all, teachers once had a prominent position in society. But due to the dramatically improving education level and the parents’ stereotype and misunderstanding of their work, they are less valued now.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, consequently, however, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, well, for example, such as, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2198.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 436.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04128440367 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89335021472 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 212.727598566 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584862385321 0.524837075471 111% => OK
syllable_count: 687.6 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.4241451343 48.9658058833 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.666666667 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7619047619 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 5.45110844103 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16608604614 0.236089414692 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.052624792785 0.076458572812 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0482166603315 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104618308912 0.150856017488 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447776593405 0.0645574589148 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 86.8835125448 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.