Teachers influence students more than their friends

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Teachers influence students more than their friends

Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends.

In my opinion, students are more influenced by their friends rather than their teachers. Therefore, I disagree with the statement that "students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends" for reasons that will be explained in the following paragraphs.
There is no doubt that teachers also influence students. However, students spend more time with their friends, therefore resulting in more influence. According to a Nigerian adage that says a goat that walks with a dog will eat feaces. This is to illustrate that a certain behavior can be transferred to another individual if both persons spend more time together. For example, while pursuing my undergraduate degree, I had a friend who would always read at least two novels per day. I was not really enthusiastic about reading but seeing her go to the library to read everyday stimulated my interest in reading. On the other hand, my lecturer who was also my mentor tried all his possible best to stimulate a reading culture in me but this was to no avail. Probably because I was not staying with her for longer hours asides the time I spent in school.
Furthermore, friends influence all other aspects of life as opposed to teachers that majorly influence the academics of a student. For instance, my friend Tolu encouraged me to keep a healthy lifestyle. Before now, I used eat a lot of chunks and fast foods, probably because I was a bit lazy to cook or maybe I just had a sweet tooth. In addition to eating a lot of unhealthy diets, I lived a sendentary life, always watching movies or surfing the internet while in sitting or lying position. With time, I gained about 10kg within a month. This got my friend worried and she challenged me to lose the excessive weight gained. Tolu normally jogs every morning and would wake me up with a call at 6 am to join her in her jogging sessions. This was really impactful and helped me to lose a 5kg of my excess weight.
The above effects are the reasons why I feel students are more influenced by their friends than their teachers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 569, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ut seeing her go to the library to read everyday stimulated my interest in reading. On t...
^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, therefore, thus, while, as to, at least, for example, for instance, i feel, in addition, no doubt, in my opinion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1766.0 1977.66487455 89% => OK
No of words: 372.0 407.700716846 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.74731182796 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70946406397 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540322580645 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 618.680645161 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1345983327 48.9658058833 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 20.6045352989 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.25 5.45110844103 170% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.459154683797 0.236089414692 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.164013873996 0.076458572812 215% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.229723235742 0.0737576698707 311% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.437866988882 0.150856017488 290% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.251594252492 0.0645574589148 390% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 11.7677419355 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.27 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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