#54 One should never judge a person by external appearances.

[Ruslan]

Hello!
Would somebody esteem my composition?
Unfortunately that is all what I can write for 30 minutes. I spend a lot of time to think about what I am going to write.

# 54 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One should never judge a person by external appearances. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

Frankly speaking I completely agree with statement that one should never judge a person by external appearance. You can’t say anything about person at first sight, moreover you can’t judge person. It’s impossible I think. You should know the person you are talking about much deeper to be sure that you really know him or her.

According to my experience the first opinion about the person is erroneous in eight out of ten cases. We usually judge person by his clothes, manners and so on. But to know person well you should mix with him for a long time. As the consequence I don’t trust people till I know them well. I don’t show them my distrust, but simply don’t trust. Sometimes it helps to avoid some problems.

Once I met person who introduced himself like an experienced specialist in computing. It was on my last job. He said that he was really professional and all. My chief asked me whether we could employ him. I answered him that we really need a specialist but we couldn’t employ him till we weren’t sure in him. I decided to ask him some simply question to be sure in his skills. That was a really simply question, but he didn’t answered. He asked me to clarify my question many times and then he told me that I was trying to stain his reputation and all. Anyway he didn’t answered, so we didn’t employ him.

My advice if you really want to employ professional, just ask him some simply questions. It will show you the nature of your conversationalist.



Thank you in advance
Best
Ruslan

[tanya]

Hi, Ruslan. Let me say a few words about your essay. To be honest with you, it is off topic (that is my opinion). Let’s start with the introduction. You are supposed to state your opinion (which you did) and mention the reasons, why you think so (which you didn’t). The first paragraph is good, you give a reason. But the second one doesn’t say anything about another reason, supporting the main idea, it rather illustrates the first paragraph. The conclusion is very short and doesn’t belong to the topic at all! You need to restate your opinion and your reasons, but try to do it in a slightly different manner.
And one more thing: simply question=simple question; didn’t answered=didn’t answer.
Sorry, if I was a little harsh on you. Don’t give up, keep trying. Practice makes perfect!

[Ruslan]

Tanya!
Thank you ever so much for your answer. It’s a kind of you to stick me to the point it’s really helpful.
I’ll try to concentrate on the topic more thoroughly and keep practicing day by day. By the way, would you please check my last post in this forum (April, 1st) and give me a small report (two lines or so). I feel a bit uncomfortable persuading you to check my work, but I really have no professional tutor (it’s a problem in a small town, you know) to give me objective report. I have been studying English on my own for about 1,5 years (except the school and university).
Kind regards
Ruslan