Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.
While some people tend to think that discussing controversial issue with those with contrasting view is not useful, other seem to disagree with it. In my opinion, I believe that we should have a discussion with other people, and the following discussion reveals my stand and reasoning.
To begin with, we can know our mistakes if we discuss with other people. To be specific, if we discuss with them, we can understand what the mistake we have due to the different view. For example, I was a basketball team leader in my college. When I chose the teammate, I wanted to choose my friend, Ken. After my best friend, Alex, told me that I should change the teammate. I realized that I made the mistake.
The second point is that if we discuss with other people, we can have a better decision. For instance, when I was in university, I have a class project with my classmate, Alex. When we discussed the issue about where we can find the best sources, we had different view. He wanted to study by ourselves, such as library or our own computers. However, I wanted to ask lots of people, like professor or other expertise, about our questions. We had different view but we did not change our mind. After the discussion we had, we chose two ways to finished ours project because we thought that it is the best option for us. We eventually got the great score. Thus, I think it is important to discuss the different with people.
True, some people might say that it is not useful to discuss with other people about the controversial topics because we would not change our mind. However, this belief fools to consider the fact that even we would not change our mind, we can still discuss with other people, and let them know what the perspectives we had. They may not change their core beliefs but they must change their action or attitude the next time. Therefore, it is hard to convince people of this idea.
To sum up, with the reasons mentioned above, I think that it is truly important to discuss with different people on different topics. There seems to be some validity to other points of view. However, I still believe that the reasons of my opinion are stronger.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, second, so, still, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, i think, such as, in my opinion, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 33.0505617978 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1794.0 2235.4752809 80% => OK
No of words: 389.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.6118251928 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47572922631 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 215.323595506 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462724935733 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 544.5 704.065955056 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 6.24550561798 336% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.3357281598 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.75 118.986275619 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2083333333 23.4991977007 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 5.21951772744 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291654670063 0.243740707755 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907548400166 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0911494242365 0.0758088955206 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196085035276 0.150359130593 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826349157238 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.4 14.1392134831 59% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 48.8420337079 148% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 12.1743820225 59% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.16 12.1639044944 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.82 8.38706741573 81% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 100.480337079 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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