People today have various ways to meet strangers and to make friends with them thanks to the ever renewing technology on social networking. Therefore, making new friends seems to be much easier, and some people even start to claim that it is not as important and meaningful as it is to keep old friends, but is this really the case? Since new friends and old friends all have their own ways of making our lives happy, fulfilled and satisfying, it would be a rigid approach to say that one outweighs the other.
Making new friends is a natural part of life, for they take good care of us when we move to new places and encounter new environments, and they also bring new possibilities which may lead to better lives. Throughout our lives, we are often “newcomers” to a place or situation, and it is our new friends who lend us a hand when old friends might be unavailable or too far to help. Without new friends, even finding the nearest hospital in a city we newly arrived in could be a challenging task. Also, new friends show us different ways of thinking or doing things, and they can help us widen social circles by introducing us to their friends too. Some people become more tolerant by interacting with friends of different sorts; some people even get married thanks to new friends’ arrangements. With new friends, life is more likely to be safe and promising.
New friends are indeed of great importance and value, but it does not mean that we should pay any less attention to keeping old friends. When we hang out with old friends from the same place in a strange city, a sense of belonging, a feeling of nostalgia arises and that is something never happens with new friends. When we return to our hometowns, it is also our old friends who give us a warm welcome and make us feel that we are home. In addition, whenever we need a listener to share our sorrow or happiness, old friends would probably be the first we call on the phone, since they usually know much better about what confuses us and how to comfort us than new friends. We may not be in the most frequent contact with our old friends, but they do have their own places which cannot be taken in our hearts.
Friends’ importance cannot be determined by how long we know them, and each friend may play a unique role that can never be replaced by others. It would just be an unfair statement to claim that keeping old friends is more important than making new ones.
- TPO-06 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Television advertising directed toward young children (aged two to five) should not be allowed. 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 75
- In twenty years there will be fewer cars in use than there are today. 70
- It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends. 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, really, so, therefore, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2021.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 445.0 407.700716846 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.54157303371 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5952439189 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483146067416 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 596.7 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.86738351254 428% => 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: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 40.5947964646 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.3125 100.406767564 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8125 20.6045352989 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8125 5.45110844103 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.417270935391 0.236089414692 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17444253576 0.076458572812 228% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105540365225 0.0737576698707 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303415805022 0.150856017488 201% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320777946207 0.0645574589148 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 69.45 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.35 10.9000537634 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 86.8835125448 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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