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 s

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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

Scientists and researchers have been studying the most effective way of teaching for decades, and one of the most disputed topics is regarding how we should respond to the positive and negative actions made by trainees. Some people hold the view that positive actions should be treated positively, by compliment, and negative actions need to be treated negatively, by overlooking. Personally, in order to provide a comprehensive instruction, negative actions should not be igored while positive ones are praised.

Feedbacks regarding both positive and negative things done are crucial for the trainee to understand a full image of the consequences. Providing complimentary feedbacks can be an encouragement for the trainee to continuously stick to and improve the positive actions. For example, when we are training dogs to achieve a certain skill like shaking hands, catching balls, or pretending to be dead, we use rewards such as cookies, dog snacks, or whatever they like to eat. The logic behind this is that utilizing the dogs' desires as a hook is one of the most effective ways to get them to do what hosts instruct and to let them know they are doing the right things. Besides the advantages of giving positive feedbacks, it is also beneficial to provide warnings and guidance regarding the bad behaviors. For instance, it is a widespread issue that young students get addicted to video games, which could be considered as wasting time to a certain degree. Sometimes, students themselves could not realize the problem of doing so because their classmates, peers are doing the same thing. Thus, as parents or teachers, it is necessary to talk to them and let them know the effects and potential consequences of being addicted to video games, rather than to ignore the situations. Giving feedbacks regardless of whether the actions are positive or negative is highly important in teaching.

On the contrary, we have to admit that under certain circumstances giving such feedbacks can have disadvantages as well. Even though complimentary feedbacks does help the trainee in persisting the positive actions, it could be harmful if the trainee sacrifices the diversity. In China, a university entrance exam is extremely important for high school students, and the exam tests a few subjects such as maths, English, history, or chemistry depending on what category the students choose. A student who is proficient in a certain subject usually receives appraisals from either teachers or classmates, but it might cause the student to be fully devoted to the subject. If so, the student might lose the strengths in other subject or become even weaker, which does no good to achieve a higher score in the exam since it covers a few branches. On the other hand, paying excessive attention to the negative actions could discourage the trainee from putting further efforts to conquer the challenge. One example that can illustrate this scenario could come from NBA matches. Apparently,a player's status varies from time to time and matches to matches, it is common that a superstar player misses a couple of shots consecutively. In this situation, if the couch abusively criticizes the player for the shots he missed, the player might be diffident in the rest of games and dare not to shoot the basket. This can tremendously affect the result of the match since a superstar player has the ability to lead or turn over the game.

In conclusion, even though there are cases that praising positive actions and feedbacking on negative ones can have disadvantages, the overall pros still outweigh the cons. Generally, the best way of teaching should provide feedback on both positive and negative actions.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, besides, but, if, look, regarding, so, still, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3102.0 2235.4752809 139% => OK
No of words: 604.0 442.535393258 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1357615894 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95746018188 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84719694003 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 300.0 215.323595506 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496688741722 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 956.7 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.5500429754 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 129.25 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1666666667 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.21951772744 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153656608261 0.243740707755 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0491634509714 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.04829491426 0.0758088955206 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119942567402 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0524452390034 0.0667264976115 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 100.480337079 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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