Grades encourage students to learn.
It is undeniable that despite remarkable advancements in education systems, grades are still the main tool for evaluating students’ performance; but, whether the grades encourage students to learn more is a subject to debate. From my perspective, grades play a critical part in encouraging students to learn deeper. In the following essay, I will elaborate on the reasons which my view is based on.
First and foremost, the challenge of getting higher grades motivates students to study more seriously. High scores cannot be achieved unless students work hard and study diligently. My own experience is a compelling example of this. During my sophomore year at university, I was assigned a major presentation in marketing strategies class. The assignment made up about half of my total grade, so I had to do my best to achieve a high score. I wrote a cogent speech and spent hours preparing for every question my classmates might have. If the presentation had not been graded, I would have not worked so hard to do a good job.
Secondly, grades motivate students because they serve as an assessment tool for knowledge. Grades are assigned in a systematic way and clearly represent which students in a class are the best and brightest. As a result, in classes where grades are given, students will strive to succeed so they can set themselves apart from their peers. For instance, in my freshman year I took a “pass/fail” course in literature. Since only a moderate amount of effort was required to pass the class, I did not work so hard on my assignments. In contrast, when I took a graded class on the same subject in my junior year, I spent hours in library researching for papers so that I could show my professor that I was intellectually superior to my classmates. In fact, in highly competitive academic environment demonstrating your competencies is crucial for success.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that grades encourage students to learn and excel in their studies. This is because grades challenge student to study meticulously, and also they give students an opportunity to distinguish themselves from their classmates.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, secondly, so, still, apart from, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, in fact, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1802.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 355.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07605633803 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1587049845 2.67179642975 118% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.557746478873 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9992591574 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8421052632 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6842105263 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57894736842 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382660610102 0.236089414692 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132188958215 0.076458572812 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.165158191137 0.0737576698707 224% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.302956341497 0.150856017488 201% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.175228643812 0.0645574589148 271% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 11.7677419355 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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