Issue 1
"We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own."; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."
Do we learn more from people whose ideas we share in common than from those whose ideas contradict ours? The speaker daims so, for the reason that disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning. I concede that undue discord can impede learning. Otherwise, in my view we learn far more from discourse and debate with those whose ideas we oppose than from people whose ideas are in accord with our own.
Admittedly, under some circumstances disagreement with others can be counterproductive to learning. For supporting examples one need look no further than a television set. On today's typical t...
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Sentence: The speaker daims so, for the reason that disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.
Error: daims Suggestion: claims
Sentence: And, economics and finance students learn little about the dynamics of a laissez-faire system by debating with a socialist whose view is that a centrv2ized power should control all economic activity.
Error: centrv2ized Suggestion: centralized
flaws:
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.272 0.35
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 532 350
No. of Characters: 2924 1500
No. of Different Words: 282 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.803 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.496 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.927 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 234 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 184 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 140 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 96 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.838 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.458 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.272 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.521 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.058 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5