Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.
Discusion of various issues is a critical part of our social interaction, many ideas are formed and refined through discusion. Yet rather often a discusion becomes uninformative and devolves into a shouting match when it touches topics that people have strong opinions on. While many such discusions do not have any positive results, I do not think one should avoid controversial topics, but rather adjust the way they aproach the conversation and focus more on the kind of language and arguments to use, which, in my opinion, can make the conversation usefull.
When talking about a controversial topic, instead of trying to understand what the other person meant, people will try to ascribe meaning to their words that wasnt necasseraly intended. This is a natural reaction to ones core beliefs being under assault, the process is not confortable and people become frustrated or even angry. However questioning these beliefs, is criticaly important, and trying to express these ideas to someone who will not accept them easily is a very good exercise. If people can focus on presenting their argument in the strongest form possible, with precise language and a calm demeanor, perhaps it can make the other side understand where they are comming from. And in that case, even if the conversation does not make anyone change their mind, it still provided an incite into other opinions, better understating of ones own arguments, and a more broad prespective of the issue.
Another potential benefit might come if the discussion is public, in a public discusion there would be many people with all kinds of positions on the issue, in that case even if noone in the discusion changed their minds it can still affect alot of people.
To conclude, I do not think that discusions of the kind mentioned in the argument are useless, they can provide better prespectives even if noone changed their mind, and can add more to the discusion if handled in a propper manner.
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- Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs. 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
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Message: The pronoun 'anyone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'changes'.
Suggestion: changes
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ne change their mind, it still provided an incite into other opinions, better understatin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, still, while, as to, kind of, talking about, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 58.6224719101 65% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1649.0 2235.4752809 74% => OK
No of words: 328.0 442.535393258 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02743902439 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69414057566 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.573170731707 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 516.6 704.065955056 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 20.2370786517 49% => 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: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 50.4469027791 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.9 118.986275619 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.8 23.4991977007 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 5.21951772744 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232210777123 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0836152012845 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.049580907648 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132278646889 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680881187381 0.0667264976115 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.7 14.1392134831 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.8420337079 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.1743820225 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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