Spoken communication is more powerful than written communication. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Today, with the advancement of technology, modes of communication are becoming increasingly diversified. Having said that, however, it is particularly the ones in speaking and writing which have occupied significant positions throughout history. Although some people may think that the former is a more effective way of communication, I personally take issue with this argument for the reasons described below.
First of all, whereas written communication is always recorded, spoken one is not. Because of this, it is often difficult to retrospectively confirm who said what and when. As a result, this can lead to a so-called “he said, she said” problem, obscuring where responsibility lies. In some cases, oral communication is even intentionally adopted for this purpose. One of the latest examples of this in Japan is a series of political scandals related to educational administration, where the government officials involved sorely relied upon oral communication not to leave any trails. In fact, even though there has been a long debate in the parliament over this issue, it is hard to say that the truth has been fully clarified.
Secondly, compared to written communication, while verbal one is superior in flexibility, it is, therefore, more prone to ambiguity. As an example, if you have experience in transcription, you would know that, no matter how many hours people talk in a meeting, they often understand the things differently, ending up with little agreement on the topic: in other words, there are only two monologues, not a dialogue. This is the reason why written contracts are highly recommended for important transactions, such as buying and selling real estate. In these cases, what is required is not flexibility but accuracy.
In conclusion, I suppose that written communication would be more efficacious than oral one as the means of information transfer because of its verifiability and correctness.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, while, i suppose, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as a result, first of all, in other words, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1641.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39802631579 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26431000194 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.641447368421 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 522.0 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.9253449525 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.214285714 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.7857142857 7.06120827912 181% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.19609644602 0.244688304435 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0655027970539 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060008300842 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118082451793 0.151304729494 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447478692582 0.056905535591 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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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.