Your school has enough money to purchase either computers for students or books for the library. Which should your school choose to buy – computers or books? Use specific reasons and examples to support your recommendation.
The power of information has influenced the process of development through the time. One may say that schools should have large libraries, whereas others may consider that computers are more relevant for the present realities. If my school has to opt between these two, I would really support the latter solution due to the fact that computers can provide a large amount of actualized information and because it preserves the natural resources. I will explain my statement in detail, in the following essay.
First, a computer with Internet connection can provide all kind of knowledge. There are plenty sites that offer online books, videos with educational content, researches and studies that cover a great variety of fields. Having computers means unlimited access to the same information founded in books, and moreover to newly-acquired knowledge. Not to mention that most of those sites are free of charge. My experience is a compelling example. Back in college, when I was writing my final paper, I used my computer in order to look for relevant information. My paper was about the conditions a country should fulfill for becoming a member of the European Union. I have also bought an expensive book about this topic, but it came up that a part of the content was out-of-date. Thus, since the original content can not be updated, the book became irrelevant for the future, it became a waste of paper. Instead, official sites and public reviews, provided the things I need to know and notified me when new laws were adopted.
Second, computers are a viable solution to protect the environment. The book industry supposes massive deforestation, billions of trees being cut down annually to serve this purpose. If in the past there was no other option than using raw materials for passing the information from one generation to another, nowadays we are living another reality, surely a better one. Therefore, we have no excuse to not embrace the digital era we live in, and to not benefit from its advantages. In addition, it is essential to mention, that most of the books end in the trash bin or in the fire. For instance,during childhood, I had many story books which did not survive through the time. They got old, disintegrated, full with bacteria, in other words they become garbage.
To summarize, schools should totally abandon buying books, and redirect their efforts to purchase technology. Using computers is more advantageous because the knowledge provided is both academic and factual, and because it protects our forests from being destroyed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 297, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , during
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, so, therefore, thus, whereas, as to, for instance, in addition, kind of, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.0752688172 223% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2147.0 1977.66487455 109% => OK
No of words: 423.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0756501182 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78846593205 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593380614657 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 675.9 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9229882467 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.347826087 100.406767564 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3913043478 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.34782608696 5.45110844103 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208217303523 0.236089414692 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0502430518327 0.076458572812 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0450563588429 0.0737576698707 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123035208472 0.150856017488 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00736860841316 0.0645574589148 11% => 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: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 86.8835125448 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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