GRE Issue:
The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Most of the time, learning process involves both positive and negative actions/results for the learner’s part. For the teacher’s part, it is very important to determine when to praise some actions and when to ignore some actions. The ratio or praising and ignoring actions can be crucial for successful teaching. Though praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones might not be the best way, it is certainly a very good and effective way of teaching but with one reservation: a bit of criticism is required for the negative actions.
First, think about a freshman college student learn...
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Sentence: They continued bashing her and now no one know where the brilliant actress lives.
Description: The fragment one know where is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace know with verb, present tense, 3rd person singular
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