Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
In order to be well-informed, a person must get information from many different news sources.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
When we think of the term well-informed, the first thought that most of people come up is getting information from different sources. However, if we receive too much information from different news sources, we may lose the main point of the information. Thus, I do not agree with the statement that a person must get information from many different news sources to be well-informed.
To begin with, it is reasonable that people connect well-informed and different news sources together. Since one of important element for us to be well-informed is to understand one event comprehensively, and getting information from diverse sources allows us to eliminate bias. The political news in Taiwan is a good example. A lot of people know that Taiwan is suffering from COVID-19 pandemic now, so there are different medias that report how COVID-19 started in different points of view, which help readers build the actual appearance of the incident. However, since different medias are in favor of different parties. Some blame the outbreak to local governments, other blame it to the central government, and eventually lost the focus of the incident.
Nevertheless, understanding an incident by using few sources of information could make us avoid this problem, but still be well-informed. This is because a lot of news sources, such as blog posts and social media, are not qualified, and therefore their news may not be accurate. Yet getting information from few but high quality of sources could let us have better understanding of an incident. For instance, focusing on few but impartial sources can help us focus on the omission that caused the outbreak. Since we would not be easily distracted by the position of different medias, and also we all know that medias like to use emotional words as the news titles, such as "mayor mocks the policy from central government" etc., to gain more attentions. Thus, overly exposed on different emotional title may affect the way we think, though we try to be unbiased.
In conclusion, despite collecting information from many different sources is a good way to be well-informed, using few but qualified sources may be more effective for us to be well-informed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the people') or simply say ''most people''.
Suggestion: most of the people; most people
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Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...that a person must get information from many different news sources to be well-informed. To...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1858.0 1977.66487455 94% => OK
No of words: 361.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14681440443 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09265357002 2.67179642975 116% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 212.727598566 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504155124654 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 618.680645161 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1095225822 48.9658058833 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.125 100.406767564 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5625 20.6045352989 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4375 5.45110844103 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => 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: 0.373933266084 0.236089414692 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143638499829 0.076458572812 188% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.139406346274 0.0737576698707 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.266075333628 0.150856017488 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0782185264694 0.0645574589148 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 11.7677419355 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 10.9000537634 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 86.8835125448 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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